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Business Process Reengineering Using Six Sigma: The client is a leading reinsurance company. The client wanted to reengineer New Business processes for Facultative and Treaty reinsurance for managing the service effectively and efficiently. Wipro first carried out a Six Sigma-based process mapping for Treaty Proportional/Non-Proportional and Facultative Proportional/ Non-Proportional. The team identified process leakages, defined process...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Wipro Technologies, BPR, reinsurance, Six Sigma, business process, team, performance; Case studies
Business Process Reengineering for the Commissions Process: 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...; Tags: Operational planning, Infosys Technologies Ltd., BPR, business process, commission, banking, benefit, financial; Case studies
Benefiting from the Balanced Scorecard: Harvard professors Robert Kaplan and David Norton developed the balanced scorecard to help translate vision and strategy into action. This technique can make strategic planning a core part of any business. They showed that financial analysis, which is largely a look backward over past performance, isn’t enough to guide long-term...; Tags: BNET Editorial, Balanced Scorecard, investment decision, technique, business process, organizational culture, team, BPR, financial analysis, Total Quality Management, performance, standards, Strategic Planning, business strategy, decision-making, motivation, vision, suppl; Articles 2007-10-03
bpr & ERP: Relating The Unrelated: In this period when economy is booming, organizations experience upsurge in profits every quarter, but along with that arise many questions, which remain unanswered. Those puzzling questions, which ring around almost all the top heads of the country, include - How to make it more sustainable? How to be globally...; Tags: BPR, decision-making; White papers 2006-02-01
Getting To Know bpr: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is one of the fundamental steps undertaken prior to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation. Business process reengineering analyses and suggests the structural changes. This is regarded to be very important because it helps in knowing how the organization should be customized in order to become ERP...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Operational planning, BPR, ERP, business process; White papers 2006-01-01

Life-Cycle Analysis and Change by Design: Applying Business Process Re-Engineering in the Performing Arts: All organizations have life cycles exploration, midlife, maturity and decay/death. The causes of life cycles are not inherent to the aging process, but depend on the capacity of leadership to re-invent the organization when needed. This capacity and capability are limited by knowledge and personality traits. The decisions a leader...; Tags: Concordia University, BPR, leader, business process, leadership, knowledge, analysis, environment; White papers 2005-05-05
Business Process Reengineering, the Creation and Implementation of a Methodology: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) advocates the fundamental examination and redesign of business processes, recognising that the legacy of scientific management has been the excessive fragmentation of work practices in organisations today. This is reflected in the hierarchical structuring of organisations around functional departments, with individual and departmental goals displacing overall...; Tags: Business Process, BPR, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Operational Planning, It Operations, Business Operations; White papers 2005-03-30
Reengineering an Educational Institute: A Case Study in New Zealand: With the education industry becoming more competitive, tertiary institutes resort to various tools and techniques to improve their performance. This paper examines the use of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in a tertiary education institute in New Zealand. The results of this research shed light on the challenges of implementation of...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, Performance management, BPR, New Zealand, business process, re-engineering, performance, technique, tool; White papers 2004-05-01
Process Ownership: The Overlooked Driver of Sustained bpr Success: 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,...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., BPR, business process, benefit, performance; White papers 2004-04-20
Integration of Deepwater and Legacy Logistic Support Processes Through Business Process Reengineering: The goal of the Deepwater Project is to improve the Coast Guard's Operational Effectiveness while Minimizing Total Ownership Cost (TOC). The Deepwater Logistics Process and Policy Development (LPPD) Integrated Project Team (IPT) is currently working on a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. Performance Based Logistics is typically used by the...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Supply chain, Operational planning, Financial accounting, United States Coast Guard, BPR, logistics, business process, financial system, government, financial, audit, ERP, asset, performance, industry, tool; White papers 2004-04-12
Business Process Reengineering and Organizational Change: If reengineering is going to realize its full potential of dramatically improving the way federal agencies do business, changing of the organizational culture must be considered an integral part of the process. Systems cannot be developed irrespective of the people that will be managing and operating those systems. One of...; Tags: process reengineering, organizational culture, BPR, re-engineering, business process, agency; White papers 2004-03-31
Business Process Reengineering and Human Resource Management: 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...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, Human resource management (HRM), Organizational structure, University of Cambridge, BPR, HRM, business process, parallel processing, re-engineering, Human Resources, vision, team, information technology; White papers 2004-02-04
Workflow Modeling and Analysis of Computer Guided Prostate Brachytherapy Under MR Imaging Control: 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...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), PRODUCTIVITY, Operational planning, BPR, business process, workflow management, modeling, computer, analysis, team; White papers 2004-01-23
Workflow Reengineering: A Methodology for Business Process Reengineering Using Workflow Management Technology: The Workflow Reengineering Methodology (WRM) is a proposed methodology that uses workflow management automation to enable Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Unlike published BPR methodologies that use historical and estimated process data gathered from workflow participants, WRM uses the more accurate, real-time process measurements, gathered by the workflow tool, to improve...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, IEEE, workflow management, BPR, workflow, business process, re-engineering; White papers 2003-07-18
Business Process Reengineering: Role of Information Technology in the Implementation of Business Process Reengineering: Business process Reengineering (Reengineering) is a pervasive but challenging tool for transforming organizations for radical improvement in all aspects of its performance. Information technology (IT) plays an important role by either enabling or constraining successful implementation of Reengineering. This paper explores the role of IT in reengineering. The role of...; Tags: Operational planning, Business process reengineering (BPR), Organizational structure, Strategy, re-engineering, BPR, business process, information technology, tool, performance; White papers 2003-04-06
Business Process Reengineering (bpr) Versus Outsourcing - Critical Perspectives: 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...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, Workforce management, BPR, termination, outsourcing, theory, business process; White papers 2003-03-18
Examining the Relationship Between Business Process Reengineering and Information Technology: The purpose of the paper is to take a comprehensive look at Business Process Reengineering (BPR), which is a popular term for the reoptimization of organizational processes and structures after the implementation of new information technologies into an organization. There is some evidence that changes in the use of Information...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, BPR, business process, information technology; White papers 2003-03-01
IT Planning And bpr: 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...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, BPR, business process, change management, information technology, tool; Presentations 2003-01-01
The effect of Outside Consultants Involvement over the Success of bpr Projects.: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a radical, Information Technology based redesign of workflows and processes within and between organizations. Since the publication of the fundamental concepts of BPR (Davenport and Short, 1990 and Hammer, 1990), a steady stream of publications has reported on BPR implementations and the dramatic benefits it...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), Operational planning, Texas A&M University, BPR, business process, consultant, consulting, benefit, performance, information technology; White papers 2003-01-01
bpr: An Overview: 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...; Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), BPR, business process; Presentations 2003-01-01