[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: An Analysis Perspective

[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: A Modeling Perspective

The increasing speed of technological progress has resulted in complex and dynamic business environments. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competitive pressures, various change management approaches such as business process reengineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire...

[Editorial] Business Process Re-Engineering: A Design Perspective

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is considered by many to have ‘had its day’ with scholars such as Hansen (Foster, 1994) stating that BPR is a misnomenor, and goes onto conclude that re-engineering does not exist because business systems were never engineered in the first place, they simply developed. Yet, others such as Hales and Savoie, (1994) and Irani et al., (1997) argue that BPR is a...

Editorial Paper CURRENT TRENDS IN BUSINESS PROCESS MODELLING

Globalisation trends and competitive pressure urge many organisations to radically change business processes. As organisations need to adapt to new trading conditions and respond to competition, various change management approaches such as business process re-engineering (BPR) are being adopted. This management concept relates to the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of an entire busi...

Editorial: Neurotechnology: An Engineering Perspective

Business Process Re-design with DEMO

The introduction of the idea of Business Process Re-engineering in the late 1980’s has resulted in an explosion of the literature. In practice the success rates of re-engineering projects is low since the majority of the approaches are founded on a functional understanding of business systems. To be really effective however, business system transformation needs to be founded in a constructional...