The abundance of innovative concepts in the business world and their differentiated influence on business practices make one wonder what shapes these concepts. Taking the perspective that a concept evolves as an organizing vision for applying an innovation in firms, this chapter addresses one aspect of the evolution: how does the popularity of one concept influence that of the other? Studying t...

It is acknowledged that developing dynamic models of business processes prior to their change can contribute towards more successful Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects. This paper investigates the suitability of IDEF diagrams (IDEF0 and IDEF3) and Petri Nets (DES-nets) for modeling business processes. After an introductory discussion of modeling issues and consequent requirements on ...

The primary objective of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is to help integrate an organization’s business operations and processes effectively and efficiently. Not all firms have been successful in their ERP implementations and to that end research has helped to identify many factors that might be critical to a successful implementation. Such factors as the use of business process r...

As more organizations are undertaking reengineering projects, project failure and associated riskiness is increased. This research shows that success was present, although failure was reported in some companies. The objective of this paper is to identify the factors that contribute to business process reengineering (BPR) success. This paper defines reengineering and develops a research model ba...

To satisfy and respond quickly to customers' demand, many companies are now aggressively focusing on supply chain management in order to strengthen their competitiveness. This paper proposes an integrated business process reengineering (BPR) framework for improving performance. There are several steps in this framework: creating vision, identifying core processes to be redesigned, analyzing cur...

The business Process reengineering is an tool to achieve dramatic output for any business. The main focus is to controlling of the process related with time, where time has been more important element to control the process. This paper has related to survey of a BPR tool used for dramatic changes in the

An increasing number of firms are marching to the drumbeat of business process redesign (BPR), alternatively called reengineering. The term reengineering may be new, but the idea of process redesign is familiar to most engineers involved in logistics and production control. Just-in-time (JIT), Total Quality Management (TQM), Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS), Computer Integrated Manufacturin...

With risk defined as the possibility of deviation in the results from the expected goals, business process reengineering (BPR) initiatives clearly involve risk taking. However, due to the high expected returns of such efforts, the acceptable risk levels of BPR will tend to be greater than those of less ambitious projects. This research reports the development of a tool to quantitatively estimat...

To achieve better performance of BPR, workflow management is integrated with BPR based on the core idea and steps of BPR. Main problems of hotel business process are studied, at the same the characteristics and advantages of WFM are introduced, which show that WFM is sound. Then BPR case of a five-star hotel in Guangzhou which adopts the WFM workflow is proposed. The rent and service charge pro...