Information systems (IS) have a record of raising efficiency and effectiveness in business operations. In the modern economy, ongoing efficiency improvements through innovation play a decisive role. A new theory of distributed relations refocuses innovations comptence from core to distributed competence, raising new efficiency opportunities. The paper suggest an economic model of the efficiency op-portunities of information processing revealing the efficiency form of distributed relations, a type of efficiency recently supported by IS. Previous research suggests examples of distributed information systems that support this type of efficiency. The distributed relations type of IS leverages an efficiency approach in the context of an organizational economics approach drawing attention to organizational informatics.
