The business world is improving dramatically, and Global competitiveness and the need to have competitive advantage drive companies to adopt new technologies and apply it into company’s processes. The development of information technology stimulates organizations to re-design its business processes to better support organization’s mission and reduce costs. This paper presents Crowdsourcing appr...

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) inevitably involves change. However, modern business organizations are extremely complex. Setting improvement targets in BPR too high without considering the company’s capability and its external and internal interactions will have little chance of achieving the set targets, which means project failure. Unfortunately, forecasting of the BPR outcomes is curr...

We demonstrate that classical Business Process Reengineering (BPR) methods can be successfully applied to Computer Aided Surgery while increasing safety and efficiency of the overall procedure through an integrated Workflow Management System. Computer guided Prostate Brachytherapy, as a sophisticated treatment by an interdisciplinary team, is perfectly suited to apply our method. Detailed sugge...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the blood pressure (BP) responses to cardiovascular stress test after a combined exercise circuit session at moderate intensity. METHOD Twenty individuals (10 male/10 fem; 33.4± 6.9 years; 70.2± 15.8 kg; 170.4± 11.5 cm; 22.3± 6.8% body fat) were randomized in a different days to control session with no exercise or exercise session consisting of 3 laps of the following...

As the economic importance of operation room (OR) management is increasing, the aim of this paper is to analyse the information need for business process reengineering (BPR) in OR management and to reveal the need for corresponding IT support. The information on OR processes available in clinical standard documentation schemes proves fragmentary and insufficient for the needs of process analysi...

An important current trend in the business environment is the tendency for applications of technology to be 'bundled' together with legitimating discourses aimed at senior management. For example, many applications of Information Technology (IT) in the early and mid-1990's were either stimulated or justified by a discourse of Business Process Reengineering (BPR), which held that old functional ...

Abstract Economically, cacao ( Theobroma L.) is a major tropical commodity for the Americas; however, severe losses due to Moniliophthora roreri (Cif. and Par.), which causes frosty pod rot (FPR), Phytophthora spp., black (BPR), have reduced production in Americas. The objectives of this study are (i) re-confirm QTL using different marker set; (ii) discover new associated with FPR BPR resistanc...