Business process re-engineering (BPR) is the analysis and redesign of workflows.
BPR's main objective is to break away from old ways of working.
The basic tools needed to accomplish Business Process Re- engineering include:
- Activity Base Costing
- Simulation
- Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE)
- Data Modeling
7 re-engineering principles:
- Organize around outcomes, not tasks.
- Identify all the processes in an organization and prioritize them in order of redesign urgency.
- Integrate information processing work into the real work that produces the information.
- Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized.
- Link parallel activities in the workflow instead of just integrating their results.
- Put the decision point where the work is performed, and build control into the process.
- Capture information once and at the source