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Business Process Reengineering

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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  … 
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Recent Vendor Reports on Business Process Reengineering
BPM Done Right: 15 Ways to Succeed Where Others Have Failed
sponsored by Software AG
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 28 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Rates of adoption of Business Process Management (BPM) technology are increasing dramatically, and with them, the stories of missed expectations, wasted investment and outright failure are also on the rise.

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Business Process Management: Achieving Greater Process Automation
sponsored by ILOG, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 10 Apr 2008 | Published: 01 Jan 2008
SUMMARY: This white paper explains how a business rule management system (BRMS) can make business process automation easier to understand, maintain and manage.

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The CIO's Guide to Offshoring in 2008
sponsored by Invest Northern Ireland
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 31 Mar 2008 | Published: 31 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Learn about the emerging trends in outsourcing for 2008, why improving processes is becoming more valuable than achieving cost savings and Gartner's predictions on the future of this landscape.

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Data Conversion Solution - Rapid Implementations
sponsored by Infosolve Technologies, Inc.
SERVICE LISTING:   Posted: 28 Mar 2008 | Published: 01 Mar 2008
SUMMARY: Learn about the importance of converting your data and how it can enable you to migrate to a new system, consolidate existing data systems and acquire other data successfully.

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Breakaway BPM - A New Era of Business Process Management
sponsored by Metastorm
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 19 Feb 2008 | Published: 19 Jul 2007
SUMMARY: Business Process Management-or BPM-refers to the ability to define, model, streamline, analyze, and improve business processes.

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IT at the Speed of Business
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 21 Jun 2007 | Published: 01 Jun 2007
SUMMARY: With technology underlying nearly every business process, the speed of IT service delivery is crucial to business health. Learn how your organization can accelerate IT project and service delivery to contribute a higher quality through innovation.

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Data Quality: Standardize, Validate and Improve Your Information Assets
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
WHITE PAPER:   Posted: 29 Feb 2004 | Published: 28 Jun 2004
SUMMARY: This paper will cover techniques for implementing the processes and technology necessary to correct and standardize information-and teach you a process to improve business processes to consistently produce accurate and reliable information.

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BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING DEFINITION (continued): …  clean) was necessary to lower 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 … 
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