Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) involves analyzing and redesigning workflows and processes within an organization to achieve greater efficiency. It aims to identify processes, review them, and redesign new "to-be" processes with the help of information technology. While BPR promised significant improvements, it did not always live up to expectations as it did not provide ways to validate that processes were the limiting factor or focus on an organization's constraints. Today, BPR is performed in a less radical way and has been succeeded by Business Process Management which is supported by information technology.

1. BPR
Business Process Re-engineering is also known as
Business Process Redesign, Business Transformation,
or Business Process Change Management.

2. Definition
• A business process is a set of logically
related tasks performed to achieve a
Identify
Processes
defined business outcome.
• Re-engineering is the basis for many
Review
recent developments in management.
Test &
Implement
Update
Analyze
• Briefly, Business Process Re-engineering
To-Be
As-Is
is the analysis and design of workflows
and processesTo-
Design
within an organization.
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3. Implication

4. The Role of Information Technology

5. Critique
• Re-engineering has not always lived up to
its expectations
I. BPR assumes that the factor that limits
an organization's performance is the
ineffectiveness of its processes but offers
no means of validating that.
II. Disregard the status quo.
III. Does not provide an effective way to
focus improvement efforts on the
organization's constraint.

6. Nowadays and Future
The re-engineering fervor in the U.S. began
to wane. Considering business processes
as a starting point for business analysis and
redesign has become a widely accepted
approach, but is performed in a less radical
way.
More recently, the concept of Business
Process Management (BPM) has gained
major attention in the corporate world and
can be considered as a successor to the
BPR wave of the 1990s, supported by
information technology.