| Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is known as | | | | service, and speed." |
| the secret to a successful business. It plays an | | | | Thomas H. Davenport (1993) is another example of |
| important role in today's business world but what | | | | how well-known Business Process Reengineering |
| exactly can BPR do for you? | | | | theorist uses the term process innovation, which he |
| BPR means understanding the processes which are | | | | says:o "encompasses the envisioning of new work |
| involved in your company. BPR is a management | | | | strategies, the actual process design activity, and the |
| approach aimed at improving your business by means | | | | implementation of the change in all its complex |
| of elevating efficiency and effectiveness of the | | | | technological, human, and organizational dimensions". |
| processes that exist within and across organizations. | | | | Additionally, Davenport (ibid.) points out the major |
| The key to BPR is for organisations to look at their | | | | difference between Business Process Reengineering |
| business processes from a clean slate perspective | | | | and other approaches to organization development |
| and determine how they can best construct these | | | | (OD), especially the continuous improvement or TQM |
| processes to improve how they conduct business. | | | | movement, when he states:o "Today firms must |
| BPR can also be known as Business Process Redesign | | | | seek not fractional, but multiplicative levels of |
| and Business Process Change Management. BPR has | | | | improvement - 10x rather than 10%." |
| become a viable way of implementing lean structures. | | | | BPR, if implemented properly, can give huge returns. |
| BPR is important to businesses for a number of | | | | BPR has helped giants like Procter and Gamble |
| reasons such as it is the organisational process, which | | | | Corporation and General Motors Corporation succeed |
| is required to align people, processes and technology | | | | after financial drawbacks due to competition. It has |
| with strategies in order to achieve business | | | | also helped American Airlines to get back on track |
| integration. BPR can also be thought of as taking a | | | | from the bad debt that was hanging over their |
| business in its current state and forming an | | | | company practice. BPR is about the proper method |
| organisational and operational blueprint in order to | | | | of implementation within a company. |
| redirect skills policies, information or data, cultural | | | | So where is the best place to approach in order to |
| values, organisational skills and processing as well as | | | | gain full benefits from Business Process |
| incentives towards making targeted improvements to | | | | Reengineering? I recommend that you talk to a |
| the business. | | | | finance business, such as an entrepreneur and |
| Below are some quotes from the best and most | | | | investor business who will be able to help you with |
| experienced people surrounding BPR: | | | | your BPR. |
| Hammer and Champy (1993) define Business Process | | | | For more information about what Business Process |
| Reengineering aso "... the fundamental rethinking and | | | | Reengineering can do for your business get in touch |
| radical redesign of business processes to achieve | | | | with an investor today and start gaining the benefits |
| dramatic improvements in critical contemporary | | | | of BPR as soon as possible. |
| measures of performance, such as cost, quality, | | | | |