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Nowadays we can observe the epochal evolution from the industrial age to the information age. The characteristic features of the industrial age are: production and consumption of material things; hierarchical, centralized distribution processes; re-use of pre-defined content, i.e., application of fixed procedures; compliance with standardized information schemes. By contrast, the information age, which starts since last decades of the 20th century,can be characterized by production and consumption of information; interpretation of non-standardized information for problem solving and decision making; decision making from bottom-up; and variable organizational networks [5].
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Grundspenkis, J. (2006). Information society development in Latvia: current state and perspectives. In: Nilsson, A.G., Gustas, R., Wojtkowski, W., Wojtkowski, W.G., Wrycza, S., Zupančič, J. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Development. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-36402-5_40
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