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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 clean) was necessary to lower
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Unlock the Hidden IT Opportunities in Troubled Economic Times
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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: 15 Jun 2009
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Modernizing IT: Strategies for Improving Service Quality and Reducing IT Costs
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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: 15 Jun 2009
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Get Closer To Your Best Customers: A Shift In Customer Strategies In A Time Of Crisis
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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: 02 Jun 2009
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Enterprise Contract Management for Life Sciences: Integrating Contract Creation, Administration, and Execution
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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: 02 Jun 2009
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Enabling The Lean Enterprise: A Three-Tiered Approach to Improving Your Operations
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Recently, many businesses have used lean principles to move from a decentralized
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Posted: 04 Jun 2009 | Published: 02 Jun 2009
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Ready to Act: 3 Recommendations for Agile Processes
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This document examines the importance of process agility today and offers three recommendations for approaching enterprise-wide process improvement successfully.
Posted: 10 Mar 2009 | Published: 10 Mar 2009
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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 … Business Process Reengineering definition sponsored by SearchCIO.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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