Business Process Re-engineering

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a technique to aid an organizations fundamental rethink of how they work, effective BPR can dramatically improve your service, cut operational costs and help you to become world-class competitors. A key element to the re-engineering of your business may be a continuing development and deployment of sophisticated information systems and networks within your business. Supporting innovative business processes, rather than refining current ways of doing work, is instrumental to a successful re-evaluation of the core processes within your business. Business process reengineering is one approach for redesigning the way work is done to better support your organization's mission and to reduce costs, often the outcome of a study results in the purchase or commissioning of software systems, which then feeds into the software development life cycle. Reengineering starts with a high-level assessment of the organization's mission, strategic goals, and customer needs. Basic questions are asked, such as Does our mission need to be redefined? Are our strategic goals aligned with our mission? Who are our customers? An organization may find that it is operating on questionable assumptions, particularly in terms of the wants and needs of its customers. Only after the organization rethinks what it should be doing, does it go on to decide how best to do it. Reengineering identifies, analyzes, and redesigns an organization's core business processes with the aim of achieving dramatic improvements in critical performance measures such as cost, quality, service, and speed.