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Business Process Reengineering
Business Process Reengineering
Presentation Outline
• General Introduction
• Automation
• Rationalization of
procedures
• Reengineering
• Paradigm shift
Automation
• refers to computerizing
processes to speed up
the existing tasks.
• improves efficiency and
effectiveness.
Rationalization of Procedures
• refers to streamlining of
standard operating
procedures, eliminating
obvious bottlenecks, so
that automation makes
operating procedures
more efficient.
• improves efficiency and
effectiveness.
Business Process Reengineering
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Key Words
• Fundamental
• Why do we do what we do?
• Ignore what is and concentrate on what should be.
• Radical
• Business reinvention vs. business improvement
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Key Words
• Dramatic
• Reengineering should be brought in “when a need exits for heavy blasting.”
• Companies in deep trouble.
• Companies that see trouble coming.
• Companies that are in peak condition.
• Business Process
• a collection of activities that takes one or more kinds of inputs and creates an
output that is of value to a customer.
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BPR & The Organization
BPR is Not?
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Reengineering & Continuous Improvement--
Differences
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What is a Process?
• Customers
• Demanding
• Sophistication
• Changing Needs
• Competition
• Local
• Global
Customer Demands
• Competition
• Local
• Global
• Change
• Technology
• Customer Preferences
Business Process Reengineering
WHY ?
Integrate people, technology, & organizational culture
To Respond to rapidly changing technical & business
environment and customer’s needs to achieve Big
performance gains
Why Organizations Don’t Reengineer?
• Complacency
• Political Resistance
• New Developments
• Cost
• Quality
• Service
• Speed
BPR Symbols
Business Process Flowchart Symbols
An Activity
A Document
A Decision
A Predefined Process
Representing a Relation
Business Process Flowchart Symbols
An Activity
A Document
A Decision
A Database File
Representing a Relation
Continuation
Off-Page Connector
Rules For Data Symbols
Rules For Data Symbols
Start Symbol used to identify the start of a business process
Generate
Purchase Activities must be described as a verb
Order
OK? Yes Decisions have only two possibilities (Yes & No)
No
Purchase
Order Name the document
Posting
of Bonus Name the data
Rules For Data Symbols
Predefined Processes always have a relation to level and
Sub-Process stream by a number in the line below a sub-process
Delivery description
Execute Plan
1. Select the Process & Appoint
Process Team
• Two Crucial Tasks
• Up-grade Equipment