Benchmarking - Uncovering Best Practices and Learning from Others - Have you ever asked yourself these questions: "How are we doing?" ; "Are we tracking the right measures?"; "How do we compare with others?"
Publisher: BPR Online Learning Center     Author: Dave Trimble   

BPR The implementation of task groups - This article outlines a methodology that involves the shop floor at a very early stage in the implementation process and the associated conditions that apply in such a process.
Publisher: H. Hofman & C.P. Visman     Author: H. Hofman & C.P. Visman   

Business Engineering and Process Redesign in Higher Education: Art or Science? - This presentation explores both policy and operational issues associated with optimizing the return on an organization’s investment in enterprise transactional systems via business engineering and process redesign.
Publisher: Susan M. Grotevant (Cause 98)     Author: Susan M. Grotevant   

Business Process Analysis - A Letter from America - Reengineering involves four major stages that include an environmental review and assessment of the business, identification of core processes, bench-marking with performance target setting, and redesigning the processes and implementation.
Publisher: The Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University     Author: V.S. Arunachalam and Easwaran Subramanian   

Business Process Redesign: An Overview - An overview of key BPR concepts covering questions regarding BPR, Processes, Myths about BPR, Relation between BPR and information technology, Role of IS function in BPR, BPR Methodology, Failure of BPR Projects, and Future of BPR.
Publisher: @BRINT Research Institute     Author: Yogesh Malhotra, Ph.D.   

Business Process Reengineering Analysis and Recommendations - Explores the principles and assumptions behind reengineering, looks for common factors behind its successes or failures, examines case studies, and presents alternatives to "classical" reengineering theory.
Publisher: Netlib.com     Author: Maureen Weicher, William W. Chu, Wan Ching Lin, Van Le, Dominic Yu   

Business Reengineering at CIGNA Corporation: Experiences and Lessons Learned From the First Five Years - Considerable uncertainty and confusion exists about what business reengineering is and when it succeeds. This paper provides a longitudinal view of CIGNA Corporation's experiences in business reengineering since 1989.
Publisher: MIS Quarterly     Author: Caron; Jarvenpa; Stoddard   

Enterprise Architecture: An Overview - This article discusses Enterprise Architectures as they relate to the broad decisions that must be made by an organization as it creates its organizational information support system.
Publisher: @BRINT Institute     Author: Yogesh Malhotra, Ph.D.   

Introduction to BPR - If you have ever waited in line at the grocery store, you can appreciate the need for process improvement. In this case, the "process" is called the check-out process, and the purpose of the process is to pay for and bag your groceries.
Publisher: BPR Online Learning Center     Author: ProSci   

Demystifying Value Added - Despite its widespread acceptance, few people can actually define value added in a way that enables them to apply it. Take the time to understand the components of value added so that you can employ it in your own activities.
Publisher: The CEO Refresher     Author: Derek F. Martin