Many Spatial Information Production (SIP) Organizations around the world are under pressure to assess their capabilities from the business perspective. Several Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects are initiated to facilitate their adaptation to changing requirements in the global information market, with a focus on the effective use of Information Technology. Several methodologies and ...

Total quality management (TQM) and business process reengineering (BPR) have emerged as important practices but not yet as a discipline. A methodology for mapping, measuring, tracking, and managing commitments in business processes is necessary to make a discipline from TQM and BPR. An organization’s network of commitments can be depicted as a map of interconnected work-flow loops. That map can...

The main goal of this research is to understand is there any difference between ERP implementation's CSF in developed and developing countries? Understanding this subject can help us to implement ERP systems properly in developing nations. This research showed that in developed and developing countries "Change Management" was most important factor and in developed countries "Country-related fun...

In their best-selling book M. Hammer and J. Champy (1993) claim that "Business Process Reengineering means putting aside much of the received Wisdom of 200 years of Industrial Management." But the book does not follow the above claim and in their view Business Process Reengineering (BPR) reduces to a radical rationalisation of the processes of a company on the basis of their expected outcomes, ...

In this work we introduce a general model for the description of mobile workforce environments. In the context of Business Process reengineering projects such models are necessary to predict the outcome of the optimization efforts. The model we propose is designed to be domain independent and can thus be utilized in BPR projects for any business domain incorporating mobile workforce systems.

This statement first outlines the main requirements for the application of the ontologies and of the agent-based technology to Business Process Reengineering (BPR). Then it tries to motivate the need for a new type of mediation for BPR, namely the mediation of ideas (instead of services, as the existing facilitators provide), in order to automatically collect, compare, combine, analyze ideas an...

Business processes, such as workflows, are software, too. However, development, evolution, and deployment of business processes have different difficulties from general software. Control, introduction, evaluation, and testing of business processes are difficult because multiple processes are related to each other and many people are involved in processes. To solve these problems, we propose BPT...

This paper provides a holistic view of the Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) implementation process. It reviews the literature relating to the hard and soft factors that cause success and failure for BPR implementation, classifies these factors into subgroups, and identifies key factors of success and failure. Finally, it explains how these factors influence the process of BPR implementatio...

There has been a lack of empirical research related to the role of IT in process improvement in a multidimensional way. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent that IT could be used (from low tech to high tech and constraint to proactive), type of process reengineering projects employed (compromise to radical) and their effect on firm performance. The firm performance was defined...

There is now sufficient literature concerning business process reengineering (BPR) to attempt to identify its central tenets. Analysis of these tenets using well-established theoretical frameworks suggests that the effectiveness of BPR may be restricted by (sometimes unrecognised) underlying assumptions. The limitations exposed by this analysis might be addressed by the introduction of other me...