BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: BPR
- business process reengineering
Additional Resources
- 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...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- 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,...
- White papers 2004-04-20
- Compare TQM and BPR
- Both TQM and BPR are customer-oriented. They both aim on improving the customer satisfaction. Also, they both suggest thinking outside in. On the other words, they both suggest to think from the customer's viewpoint. Also, both TQM and BPR are process-oriented. They both target to alter the processes, but not...
- White papers 1998-08-30
- IT Leadership Behavior And Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Outcomes
- In recent times, Business Process Reengineering BPR has dominated the thinking of corporate executives. BPR is seen as the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance. The paper presents an empirical analysis of 30 BPR projects.
- Presentations 2000-04-28
- From Reengineering to Process Management - A Longitudinal Study of BPR in a Danish Manufacturing Company
- This paper is a longitudinal study of BPR initiatives at Enzyme Business carried out between January 1994 and March 1998 in Novo Nordisk A/S, one of the largest companies in Denmark and the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes with a market share of more than 50%. The paper provides...
- White papers 2001-09-01
- HOLOSOFX ships v. 1.0 of Workflo.BPR, breakthrough software for process representation
- LOS ANGELES--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 27, 1995--HOLOSOFX Inc. (formerly known as Virtual Management Inc.) has announced commercial availability of version 1.0 of its flagship business-process representation product, Workflow.BPR.Workflow.BPR, the first in a family of Business Process Improvement products, is a comprehensive, industry-independent, business-process definition tool that allows realistic visual representation of exactly...
- Research articles 1995-02-27
- How to Lose a BPR Contract to Competitors
- Winning a business process reengineering BPR contract isn't easy. It can be a lot harder if one is depending on fast talk to cover a weakness in capabilities. It's all too easy to adorn the same tired old service with a fancy new name, then trot it out to potential...
- 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...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- 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...
- White papers 2006-01-01
- 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...
- White papers 2003-03-18
- Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group/ICS rolls-out first series of industry transformation initiatives; First Deliverables Include New Vertical IndustryPrints; New Partnerships with IntelliCorp, AutoTester, and OneWave; and New BPR for SAP Service Line;
- PHILADELPHIA--BUSINESS WIRE--SAPPHIRE '96 Conference Booth # 1102 --August 26, 1996--Deloitte & Touche Consulting Group/ICS ICS today announced the first in a series of new "Transformation" programs for redefining the role of professional IT consulting services. Included in this roll-out are new IndustryPrints -- pre-configured, industry-specific templates for SAP's R/3...
- Research articles 1996-08-26
- Traditional consulting firms corner the BPR market for complex projects
- FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 23, 1995--A new report from IDC's Consulting and Management Services program reveals that a key differentiating factor for segmenting BPR buying patterns and defining unique service provider attributes is project complexity.In a new report, Key Market Dynamics and Service Provider Positioning in the Business Process Reengineering Market,...
- Research articles 1995-01-23
- 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...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Business Process Reengineering
- Business Process Reengineering BPR is a radical shift in an organization's strategic thinking and approach towards institutionalization of better and efficient systems and processes. Effective BPR results in enhanced productivity levels. One of the many benefits of BPR is the quantification of strategy so that each step therein can be...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- e-Everything Age
- In the modern day business scenario, Information Technology IT has emerged as a key driver in creating business advantage. IT tools enable information that is used to exploit strategic business opportunities. Business Process Re-engineering BPR is a change management strategy wherein major modifications are effected in organizational processes. BPR enables...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Business Process Reengineering & Innovation
- 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...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Business Process Redesign: An Overview
- "Business Process Redesign is ""the analysis and design of workflows and processes within and between organizations"" (Davenport & Short 1990). In their view processes have two important characteristics: i They have customers internal or external, ii They cross organizational boundaries, i.e., they occur across or between organizational subunits. One technique...
- White papers 1998-10-01
- Reengineering Revisited
- In recent times, Business Process Reengineering BPR has dominated the thinking of corporate executives. BPR is seen as the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance. The paper mulls over the thought that BPR is not the panacea for...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Business Process Reengineering
- Customers, competition, and change are three factors, which drive an organization. The organization has to re-adjust itself according to the demands raised by any of these three factors or a combination of the same. Business Process Reengineering BPR is a radical shift in an organization's strategic thinking and approach towards...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
- Business Process Reengineering
- Sometimes, due to market pressures or otherwise, situations arise when business processes have to be altered and modified. Business Process Reengineering BPR is a radical shift in an organization's strategic thinking and approach towards institutionalization of better and efficient systems and processes. Effective BPR results in enhanced productivity levels. The...
- Presentations 2003-01-01
