BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING
Business Process Re-engineering also commonly known as BPR involves the
radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in
productivity, cycle times and quality.
In BPR, companies start with a blank sheet of paper and rethink existing
processes to deliver more value to the customer. They typically adopt a new
value system that places increased emphasis on customer needs. Companies reduce
organizational layers and eliminate unproductive activities in two key areas.
-First, they redesign functional organizations into cross-functional teams.
-Second, they use technology to improve data dissemination and decision
making.
How Business Process Re-engineering works:
Business Process Re-engineering is a dramatic change initiative that
contains five major steps that managers should take:
·
Refocus company values on customer needs
·
Redesign core processes, often using information technology to enable
improvements
·
Reorganize a business into cross-functional teams with end-to-end
responsibility for a process
·
Rethink basic organizational and people issues
·
Improve business processes across the organization
By Eve,
UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI, FINANCE DEPARTMENT
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