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ALSO CALLED: Re-Engineering, Reengineering, Process Reengineering, Process Quality Management, BPR, Process Innovation, Process Improvement, and Business Process Engineering
DEFINITION: Business process reengineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises. BPR reached its heyday in the early 1990's when Michael Hammer and James Champy published their best-selling book, "Reengineering the Corporation". The authors promoted the idea that sometimes radical redesign and reorganization of an enterprise (wiping the slate clean) was necessary to lower  … 
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Transforming Insight Into Action with Business Process Management
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Take action based on deep process insight with business process management. This white paper shows how your business can not only acquire deeper insight into current business operations, but also how to use that insight to drive performance, productivity and savings throughout your organization with BPM from IBM.
Posted: 15 Oct 2009 | Published: 15 Oct 2009


Winning the Performance Battle: Standardizing Best Practices with Technology
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights the important elements and key benefits of standardizing business processes and operating procedures based on uniform, organization wide technology. It also serves as a guide for engineering and construction (E&C) firms choosing the right technology to promote standardization across their organizations.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: IT executives are under intense pressure to cut costs, and that pressure is significantly increased by the current grim economic outlook. So, how can your organization weather this economic storm? Surprisingly, a variety of opportunities for IT are hidden within today's financial challenges. Learn how with the right approach, processes, and...
Posted: 18 Jun 2009 | Published: 18 Jun 2009


Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service Quality and Reducing IT Costs
sponsored by BMC Software, Inc
WHITE PAPER: Working harder simply won't get you there. No matter how many people you allocate, sinking more labor into old IT practices cannot concurrently meet rising demands on IT and cut costs. Read about cost-effective, automated ways to meet this challenge head-on in our latest article, “Strategies for Modernizing IT, Reducing Costs, and..”
Posted: 17 Jun 2009 | Published: 17 Jun 2009


Get Closer To Your Best Customers: A Shift In Customer Strategies In A Time Of Crisis
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: The extraordinary circumstances of the current economic crisis have changed the operating rules for companies of every size, in every industry. Companies now face a unique opportunity to reexamine traditional business practices and make much-needed changes - changes that will help them survive the downturn and flourish with the inevitable up...
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009


Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Leading life sciences companies are recognizing the need for synchronized, enterprise-wide pricing and contract management processes. An integrated solution can provide the transparency needed to satisfy auditors, balance pricing with go-to-market strategies, and support sales and finance teams - including accurately predicting margins.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009


Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations
sponsored by SAP America Inc
WHITE PAPER: Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized corporate management mode to a hybrid model - recognizing that different functions require different levels of centralized management to be efficient and effective. Read this whitepaper to learn a three-tiered approach to improving your operations.
Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 04 Jun 2009


Simple Tricks to Ace the Subnetting Portion of Any Certification Exam
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WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper teaches useful methods for passing certification test questions.
Posted: 06 Jan 2007 | Published: 06 Jan 2007

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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING DEFINITION (continued): …  costs and increase quality of service and that information technology was the key enabler for that radical change. Hammer and Champy felt that the design of workflow in most large corporations was based on assumptions about technology, people, and organizational goals that were no longer valid. They suggested seven principles of reengineering to streamline the work process and thereby achieve significant levels of improvement in quality, time management, and cost:1. Organize around outcomes, not tasks.2. Identify all the processes in an organization and prioritize them in order of redesign … 
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