BPR Learning Center - Reengineering

BPR Learning Center - Reengineering: "Business process reengineering


Overview Reengineering Resources

Business process reengineering is the redesign of business processes and the associated systems and organizational structures to achieve a dramatic improvement in business performance. The business reasons for making such changes could include poor financial performance, external competition, erosion of market share or emerging market opportunities. BPR is not - downsizing, restructuring, reorganization, automation, new technology, etc. It is the examination and change of five components of the business:

1. Strategy
2. Processes
3. Technology
4. Organization
5. Culture

Michael Hammer defines business process reengineering in his book Reengineering the Corporation as:

Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance."