Paperwork and Information Services

Index

Note: The economy is generally broken down into Agriculture, Manufacturing, and Services. In discussing the advance of automation we use a different organization. The automation of agriculture is considered as a topic in the automation of manufacturing. We consider the automation of former paperwork processes as a separate topic regardless of whether the paperwork processes being automated are part of the public or private sector in agriculture, manufacturing, or the services.

Objective:
(1) Within a firm, government or social organization:
   a.Shift from paper records to digital records
   b.Productivity advances based on shift to digital
(2) Transactions among economic agents in different organizations
   a.Shift from paper records to digital records
   b.Productivity advances based on shift to digital
(3) Growth of information sevices in cyberspace.

The index for this section is:

• Segment 1; Overview
• Segment 2: Paperless Organizations
  • Initial response to electronic advance was more paper
  • Electronic communicaiton promotes progress towards paperless
  • Medical Records
  • Intranets
  • Reorganization caused by advances in information technology
  • Shift to micromanagement
  • Fewer levels of management
  • Paperless: Surf the Net
• Segment 3: Among economic agents in different organizations
  • Stock and Commodity Markets
  • Other markets
  • Payments mechanism
  • Market Transactions: Surf the Net
• Segment 4: Information Services
  • Information Services: Surf the Net

Entire section revised: 25 Aug 09