Business Process Reengineering BPR involves fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve enhanced organizational efficiency and productivity. Information Technology IT tools facilitate BPR. The paper examines basic principles of BPR and discusses the role of IT in it.
Enterprise resource planning ERP systems have emerged as the core of successful information management and the enterprise backbone of organizations. The difficulties of ERP implementations have been widely cited in the literature but research on the critical factors for initial and ongoing ERP implementation success is rare and fragmented. Through...
The paper shows that in spite of its early popularity in U.S., business process reengineering has yielded mixed results, and for many, it has become a worn out management buzzword. In a survey, over half the business process reengineering projects in U.S. corporations were judged by the management as failures....
Business Process Re-engineering BPR has been a management concept since the late 1980s. Its popularity was greatly accelerated by an article published by Hammer in the Harvard Business Review. The BPR strategy propounded by Hammer focused on organization and management changes to bring about radical business improvements. The advent of...
An organization is in trouble and it needs to improve now or it will not survive. This article informs that there are improvement programs including Total Quality Management TQM, Business Process Engineering BPR, Business Process Improvement BPI, the philosophy of Deming, and other "new" programs. The decision to adopt the...
This article presents a case example involving the renaming of an organizational change process from BPR to outsourcing. The paper discusses the important ramifications of such a name change in that the recognition of outsourcing allowed an organizational commitment to counseling and termination advice. The paper discusses two ways of...
This article reviews the Business Process Reengineering BPR vision of radical business process change, focusing upon the use of information technology to facilitate a shift away from linear/sequential work organization towards parallel processing and multidisciplinary team working. It highlights BPR's cursory treatment of the human dimension of its programme for...
Many companies have eagerly embraced the principles of business process reengineering BPR over the past decade. However, in hindsight, it is becoming clear that results are not quite as positive as they first appeared. Recent studies suggest that the BPR success rate (i.e., the frequency with which BPR initiatives achieve,...
Having weathered a series of numbing blows recently, companies the world over are reassessing their business models and fundamentally redesigning them from within. With top-line growth stalled in many industries, overhead costs are a primary and persistent target of these reviews. Over the past decade, most global 500 companies have...
An Australian corporation, which is among the top ten banking institutions and top five general insurers, has one of the highest cross-sell rates in the financial sector. The company wanted to reengineer its business processes in order to improve the efficiency of the commission systems. Infosys helped the client to...
This paper discusses and focuses on a medical informatics and business process reengineering research project, the Joint Medical Asset Repository JMAR is a relational database system created to integrate very diverse medical supply and medical maintenance management information from the US military services existing heterogeneous database systems. Most drugs, supplies,...
This paper demonstrates that classical Business Process Reengineering BPR methods can be successfully applied to Computer Aided Surgery while increasing safety and efficiency of the overall procedure through an integrated Workflow Management System. Computer guided Prostate Brachytherapy, as a sophisticated treatment by an interdisciplinary team, is perfectly suited to apply...
From the executive summary: ‘Managers are under intense pressure to create value. But, value creation by improving operational efficiency through initiatives like outsourcing, business process reengineering, and workforce reduction has limits in terms of morale and potential. Companies must couple such efficiencies with innovation and new business development. Another solution...
In the modern-day business environment, Business Process Reengineering BPR has emerged as an important business paradigm. It involves fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve enhanced organizational efficiency and productivity. The paper examines BPR.
Business Process Reengineering BPR calls for a radical redesign and systematic overhauling of strategic systems and processes in an organization. In the technology-centric business environment of today, more and more organizations are using Information Technology IT tools in their mainstream organizational processes. Hence, for BPR, it is required that the...
Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the efficiency and productivity of these systems. BPR always questions the ‘status quo’. It involves change and change management to effectively transform the working of organizational systems and processes. Information Technology IT tools facilitate...
Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the efficiency and productivity of these systems. BPR, essentially, challenges the existence of current organizational systems. It facilitates the evolution of new aspects in systems in line with environmental changes. Innovation facilitates BPR by...
Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the efficiency and productivity of these systems. The BPR philosophy is in line with change and change management paradigm. In today’s dynamic business world where change is inevitable, BPR is an effective strategy to...
Intense competition and high levels of quality and service characterize the modern business era. In such scenario, it is imperative for organizations to look at new ways of implementing organizational systems and processes. Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the...
Business Process Reengineering BPR is the radical redesign and transformation of strategic organizational systems to enhance the efficiency and productivity of these systems. BPR involves conceptualizing and developing unique ways to modify organizational systems. Innovation facilitates BPR in envisioning these ways. The paper examines issues involved in business process innovation....
