This study examines a series of relationships between information technology (IT) and business process reengineering (BPR). Specifically, it argues that those aspiring to do business process reengineering must begin to apply the capabilities of information technology. This paper provides a summary of IT roles in initiating and sustaining BPR and examines several companies that have successfully...

Introduction This paper addresses three phenomena of interest to organizational scholars and practitioners: corporate change programmes; new forms of organising; and knowledge processes in and around organisations. It does so using a case study of the Leicester Royal Infirmary, a large UK NHS teaching hospital, that gained the status of innovator in its sector through the introduction of a reen...

Many reengineering approaches have focused on extracting an abstract representation through syntax analysis of legacy source codes. So, recovery of rationale behind the design decision, such as domain specific semantics and roles, has been ignored. In this paper, we suggest the architecture based reengineering approach using design patterns. A design pattern, as core element of software archite...

Abstract— Software metrics support various reengineering tasks. A set of software metrics can be used to identifying the quality problems with the current system and the prioritization of applications that are candidates for reengineering according to their technical quality and business value. The metrics can be used in the measurements of the costs of changes in the software, if an increase i...

The innovative content of the components, stages, and results construction implementation toolset, which provides a formalized assessment choice rational scenario for reengineering at modern enterprise in form target project, was displayed. need research is caused by fact that existing approaches to business processes an application enterprises require significant adjustments. as project should...

Software projects still suffer from high failure rates, especially in developing countries. However, no one evaluated the current studies that were conducted in the context of Saudi Arabia (SA), a developing country. We try to fill this gap using a property-based critical literature survey of existing studies. The findings suggest that management/organization factors including lack of top manag...

During project planning, knowledge about software processes is useful in several situations: software processes are defined, activities are scheduled, and people are allocated to these activities. In this context, standard software processes are used as basis for defining project processes, and tools are used to support scheduling, people allocation, and so on. Ideally, people and tools should ...

To remain competitive many businesses in the 1990’s have undertaken business process reengineering projects reorganising one or more parts of their operations. This paper results from a case study of the enterprise-wide review of Mobil Oil Australia Limited to increase profitability and change the culture of the organisation. A radical (to the Oil Industry) business unit organisation structure ...

The building industry, though one of Europe’s biggest business sectors, is primarily made up of small companies. This implies the need for low cost and easy to use computer support to allow these companies to survive in today’s competitive markets. The ESPRIT project CSCCM was a pilot for such an approach and demonstrated how small companies can increase their efficiency in the area of bid prep...

Reengineering patterns describe and discuss techniques that support reengineering tasks. They help a software engineer to understand the structure and the inner workings of a software system, to identify design problems and to improve the system in order to make it more exible and extensible. In this paper we present a reengineering pattern that shows how you can use type inference to facilitat...