[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: A Modeling Perspective
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The increasing speed of technological progress has resulted in complex and dynamic business environments. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competitive pressures, various change management approaches such as business process reengineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire business system to achieve significant improvements in business performance. Business process reengineering has become one of the most popular topics in organisational management creating new ways of doing business.
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