Business Process Reengineering (BPR) advocates the fundamental examination and redesign of business processes, recognising that the legacy of scientific management has been the excessive fragmentation of work practices in organisations today. This is reflected in the hierarchical structuring of organisations around functional departments, with individual and departmental goals displacing overal...

Business process reengineering (BPR) is one of a company's major instruments to achieve improved performance. BPR projects almost always include major efforts on developing and integrating information technology. This paper addresses how BPR and application development may be methodologically integrated, building on a product-based design of business processes and a component-based IT developme...

The Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) contains several provisions for nanomaterials (NMs) and is the first regulation in the European Union to require specific testing and risk assessment for the NM form of a biocidal substance as a part of the information requirements. Ecotoxicological data are one of the pillars of the information requirements in the BPR, but there are currently no standard ...

This paper models and analyses the effect of information sharing and forecasting on the performance parameters of an actual industrial supply chain consisting of Small-To-Medium sized enterprises. The paper reports on the industrial supply chain studied, which was undergoing a Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) exercise. The aim of the BPR exercise was the streamlining of existing unstructur...

Many Spatial Information Production (SIP) Organizations around the world are under pressure to assess their capabilities from the business perspective. Several Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects are initiated to facilitate their adaptation to changing requirements in the global information market, with a focus on the effective use of Information Technology. Several methodologies and ...

The article considers the discourse surrounding culture change programmes in two British manufacturing organisations. The analysis of organisational discourse is pursued as a means of revealing the indeterminacy of organisational experiences and the problems inherent to the introduction of generic change approaches such as TQM (Total Quality Management) and BPR (Business Process Reengineering)....

This paper presents a knowledge-based methodology for process modeling and its improvement that uses a casebased methodology to assist its users in the modeling and redesign of critical business processes. We developed a CAPS (CAse-based Process modeling Supporting system) to support our proposed methodology. To reengineer a new business process problem, CAPS uses a hierarchical indexing method...

However, despite the significant growth of the BPR concept, not all organisations embarking on BPR projects achieve their intended result. Hammer and Champy (1993) estimate that as many as 70 percent do not achieve the dramatic results they seek. Having BPR repeatedly at the top of the list of management issues in annual surveys of critical information systems reflects executives' failure to ei...

Hispanic/Latinos (H/L) are being studied for healthcare disparities research utilizing community based participatory research (CBPR). CBPR’s active participation of community members and researchers suggests improvement in community health. Yet there are no known studies that inductively investigated the lived experience of H/L community leaders and members with CBPR using interpretive phenomen...

BPR has arguably been the most popular and sweeping change management approach of the past decade. The widespread attention, indeed hype, surrounding BPR can, at least partly, be attributed to the fact that BPR advocates an alternative perspective on how businesses should be studied and improved. According to this perspective, businesses should not be analyzed in terms of the functions in which...