Objective: Congenital hydronephrosis is a common prenatally diagnosed anomaly associated with an incidence of approximately 0.5-1% in newborns. The purpose of this study was to clarify the value of 99 m diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid (99mTc-DTPA) in the assessment of renal function impairment of pediatric hydronephrosis. Methods: A total of 48 children with unilateral ureteropelvic junctio...

Companies making products on an engineer to order (ETO) basis have traditionally found business opportunities through design and product development expertise and an ability to respond to demands for customisation with improved product performance. However, increasingly, customers are seeking lower prices and reduced lead times, which also require improved manufacturing efficiency. These compan...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate and compare the moderating effects of the two basic business process change paradigms – business process reengineering (BPR) and total quality management (TQM) – on the business value generated for firms by their information and communication technologies (ICT) investment. Design/methodology/approach – Using data collected throug...

Multidrug-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus continue to increase in frequency worldwide, both in hospitals and in the community, raising serious problems for the chemotherapy of staphylococcal disease. Ceftobiprole (BPR; BAL9141), the active constituent of the prodrug ceftobiprole medocaril (BAL5788), is a new cephalosporin which was already shown to have powerful activity against a nu...

Business process re-engineering (BPR) has been associated with runaway costs and corporate downsizing. This and other negative connotations have created or strengthened suspicions about the organizational impacts of information technology (IT). This paper considers the fundamental ideas of BPR, with IT as an enabling agent, and examines their consistency with sound management practice. © 1997 E...

a r t i c l e i n f o We extend current research examining synergies between information technology, process redesign, and firm performance in three ways: analyze a firm's entire IT and BPR portfolio, examine production and market value performance implications, and conduct analysis using a unique dataset of 228 firms between 1996 and 1999. We find a contingent association between IT, process r...

Der Beitrag stellt ein Konzept vor, wie große Prozeßmodelle aus verschiedenen BPR-Projekten in ein unternehmensweites Referenzprozeßmodell integriert werden können. Es wird gezeigt, welche Erfahrungen die SKO bewogen haben, für die Geschäftsprozeßmodellierung ein Referenzprozeßmodell mit neutralen Geschäftsprozeßmustern zu verwenden. Es wird dargestellt, wie der Prozeß zur Modellfortschreibung ...

It is generally recognized that an organization's information technology (IT) infrastructure can facilitate organizational change, particularly when the information needs of the business process are clearly defined and the capabilities of the IT infrastructure fully explored. Unfortunately, firms engaged in business process redesign (BPR) often struggle to meet these two conditions as outmoded ...

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a popular management approach, which enables organizations to conduct substantial business and technological improvements. Successful implementation of BPR can assist organizations to change their old-fashioned practices into innovative processes through reorganizing and eliminating some processes and/or finding innovative ways to conduct business activit...

This paper proposes the use of Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) methods and analysis tools to address the issues arising in the implementation of electronic voting. We consider the electoral process as one which has to be re-designed in order to effectively accommodate e-Voting technology. We identify the key areas of e-Voting where the use of BPR can provide beneficial results.