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...

Page xii ✍ The purpose of this thesis is to introduce a new broad approach to computing – Empirical Modelling (EM) – and to propose a way of applying this approach for system development so as to avoid the limitations of conventional approaches and integrate system development with business process reengineering (BPR). Based on the concepts of agency, observable and dependency, EM is an experie...

Business Process Reengineering has gained a considerable attention in the world of change management during the past years. While more and more organizations embark on the BPR trend it can be concluded, that the theoretical bedrock for BPR falls rather short of the concepts ambition of being a solution for a multiplicity of problems that many companies suffer from. This thesis is intended to pr...

In this paper, after analyzing the predicaments that Chinese traditional logistics enterprises face while launching modern logistics services, the theory of reforming Chinese traditional logistics enterprises with Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is put forward. Then the basic implementation principles are discussed, and the steps of BPR are also analyzed for Chinese logistics enterprises. ...

Proportional service differentiation models are simple and effective approaches to service differentiation in Internet. Schedulers for delay differentiation are important elements of these models. We describe a new scheduler for proportional delay differentiation called BPR: Optimized BacklogProportional Rate scheduler. BPR considers waiting times of packets that are backlogged in queues in ord...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Persistent generalized status epilepticus (SE) is associated with alterations of cerebral perfusion (CP). Because perfusion-weighted MR imaging (PWI) allows noninvasive CP-determination, the aim of this study was to investigate CP alterations during acute experimental SE correlated with SE-induced neuronal cell loss. METHODS The rat pilocarpine model was used to induce ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper proposes an assessment approach for readiness in BPR efforts based on the critical success and failure factors. Design/methodology/approach – A relevant literature review, which investigates success and failure indic...

Current literature on business process re-engineering (BPR) lacks detailed guidance and support for the actual execution of re-engineering. Many publications illustrate the situation before and after BPR; but do not discuss the path that has been travelled to reach the final situation. We think that it is possible to provide tools to support practitioners executing BPR projects. In our research...

OBJECTIVE To define a new primitive reflex named the buccopalpebral reflex (BPR), and to investigate this reflex clinically and neurophysiologically in patients with Parkinson disease. METHODS This prospectively designed study included 17 patients, 9 BPR positive patients, and 8 BPR negative patients in Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, and was carried out between January...