Business Process Reengineering (BPR) was developed as a new idea which, it was suggested, would revolutionise the corporation and give it a major competitive advantage. Rather than continue the debate about whether BPR is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, the focus here is on understanding how the concept ‘BPR’, however defined, has been diffused across European jlrms. The results from a survey of jirms in four...

In this survey we look at two classes of reengineering, of software systems and of organizations. The latter is known as business reengineering. The purpose of reengineering is to improve the structure of a software system or organization by use of an engineering approach. Part of the survey is therefore a listing of engineering principles. An important principle is that there be well planned p...

O of the most fundamental assumptions held by applied anthropologists is the view that the anthropological perspective can be fruitfully applied in any human endeavor. As stated by P. Higgins and A. Paredes in their introductory notes to Classics of Practicing Anthropology 1978-1998 (Society for Applied Anthropology, 2000), this has been the underlying philosophy of Practicing Anthropology sinc...

This research aims to find out how the implementation of business process reengineering occurred in Dinamika University library during new normal era. The method uses an exploratory approach by conducting in-depth interviews with key informants, head division, and primary informants are staff. will stop if interviewed researcher provide same information or answers no longer varied. In this stud...

Since mid-2000s hospitals have begun implementing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology in order to improve their operations management. This paper aims to explore the potential of RFID technology in improving the traceability of medical instruments in a hospital environment. A case study is conducted at a hospital in Montreal, Canada and the business process reengineering (BPR) appr...

Based upon past experience, when undertaking a large, complex, systems project, the realistic expectation should be that the project will fail. In particular, business process reengineering (BPR) projects have an even higher failure rate because of their expanded scope. Hiring a large, established consulting company is no guarantee of success; neither is buying packaged software and implementin...

Introduction: Nowadays, organizations working in dynamic and competitive environments have to change their processes from both the inside and outside of the organization. One of the most effective strategies for monitoring and controlling these changes is re-engineering. This study aimed to refine the collection and classification process of data through re-engineering. <...

Information and communications Corporations usually work in an environment in which business requirements are subject to continuous inevitable change. Therefore, in order to sustain competitive advantage, the corporations are required to continuously configure their business processes and operations with respect to these changes.This paper provides a model interconnecting ICT adoption,ICT-enabl...

Modern organizations are constantly facing new challenges regarding the reengineering of their business departments and processes. By the term Business Process we mean the profile of specific methods that can be employed to perform specific business tasks. In general, each Business Process is uniquely tailored to the organization it applies. Therefore, the resolution of a Business Process relat...