What is reengineering and how does it work?
Business Process Reengineering involves the radical redesign of core business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in productivity, cycle times and quality. In Business Process Reengineering, companies start with a blank sheet of paper and rethink existing processes to deliver more value to the customer.
What is necessary before reengineering?
Reengineering requires focusing on critical processes, often using cross-functional teams, information technology, leadership and process analysis. A process selected for reengineering should be a core process, which has great scope for ‘breakthrough’ improvements rather than incremental improvement.
Why is re-engineering important?
Business process reengineering (BPR) helps organizations reimagine their existing processes and take extreme redesign measures to achieve remarkable results. Implementing BPR successfully will result in more drastic benefits of saving costs, speeding processes, and bettering product/service quality.
What are the key concepts of BPR?
The concept of business processes – interrelated activities aiming at creating a value added output to a customer – is the basic underlying idea of BPR. These processes are characterized by a number of attributes: Process ownership, customer focus, value adding, and cross-functionality.
Who needs BPR?
BPR aimed to help organizations fundamentally rethink how they do their work in order to improve customer service, cut operational costs, and become world-class competitors. BPR seeks to help companies radically restructure their organizations by focusing on the ground-up design of their business processes.
How is process reengineering used in project management?
Implementation of process reengineering proceeds in a project team format, facilitated by a trained project manager, ideally a PMP. Process reengineering projects go hand-in-hand with the continuous improvement philosophy espoused by most large U.S. companies in response to the Japanese success of the 1970s and ’80s, with one difference.
What do you need to know about re-engineering?
Re-engineering commences by defining the business philosophy of the relevant organisation alongside the following principles: The next step is to define the business architecture to respond to the above needs. The business architecture broadly represents how the services are to be planned, packaged and delivered to recipients.
Where was re-engineering project and program management presented?
Re-engineering project and program management to deliver government services. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2008—Asia Pacific, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute.
Are there any templates for business process reengineering?
We have also provided business process templates that you can use right away to kickstart your own BPR project.