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Volume 4, Issue 5
1 December 1996
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Information Management & Computer Security
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Technical Paper| December 01 1996

The value brokers: how to measure client/server payback Available to Purchase

Brian McWilliams
Brian McWilliams
Computerworld, Client/Server Journal
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-5805
Print ISSN: 0968-5227
© Authors
1996
Information Management & Computer Security (1996) 4 (5): 15–17.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09685229610793111

Discusses the measurement of client server payback. suggests that companies should not be using return on investment because financial yardsticks cannot measure directly the long‐term competitive advantage given by increased productivity and communication related to information systems.

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Client‐server computing, Information resources management, Return on investment
© Authors
1996
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