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Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) today is the latest, most radical, revolutionary and extremely powerful management tool. BPR is defines as the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of the business process to achieve dramatic improvements in the critical contemporary measures of performances such as cost, quality, services and speed. According to Peter F. Drucker, Re-engineering is new and it has to
be done. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) aims at performance improvement through dramatic change in organizational structure, skill development, change in technology and change in mindset of people. BPR is a process which explores the possibility of doing things in
different ways to improve efficiency in the operation and it involves rethinking, renovation, redesigning, retooling. In other words, it is an exercise towards transformation of an
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Step in Business Process Re-Engineering (BPR) The flowchart for implementing the BPR is shown in
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Characteristics of BPR 1. It is process centered: BPR offer process based approach to strategy rather than market based approach. The tool concentrates on process activities that convert inputs to output for the customers. 2. It is redesigned governed: It will not believe in minor improvements through modifications. It is going to strike the very aspects of design. 3. It is radical: The entire form or structure of the process may change during the reengineering and the reengineered process may not resemble the old one. 4. It is dramatic: The tool is not much useful for marginal improvement of business performance. 5. It is customer oriented: The entire process of reengineering revolves around how to give the customer what he wants at the right time and in the most effective manner. Advantage of BPR 1. Improvements in entire organization as a whole. 2. Better systems and management improvements in the areas of Product and design, Design and operations, improved system operations. 3. Take advantages of improved technology. 4. Improved application of industrial engineering in the area of organization strategies, management function, Plant utilization, Quality improvement, Creativity and innovation and confidence in competition. 5. Improvement in customer satisfaction.
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