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Developing a strategic application--intended to make a company more flexible, more responsive to customer needs, or more able to adapt to rapidly changing conditions in the competitive environment-is fundamentally different from investments undertaken to automate the back office to reduce expenses or increase capacity. Alternative techniques for evaluating the business case for strategic systems have been developed and have worked well in practice. Several cases are presented here.
Eric K. Clemons (1991) studied this question.