Since early 1990’s, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has become a buzzword around the world. Of the BPR methods and models suggested, the majority has put much attention on redesigning processes at operational levels. Those who stress the importance of strategic process reengineering tend to emphasize that redesigning should be embarked and implemented at a broader scope (crossfunctional) i...

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...

The purpose of this paper is to help demystify the confusion on Business Process Reengineering (BPR). This is achieved through a review of the literature covering the period from the late 1980s to 1998. Articles published in the leading business journals and the more popular business magazines were included in the review, as well as books published on the topic. The paper first discusses the ne...

The growth and popularity of e-commerce has both challenged and enabled public sector organisations to redefine their levels of service. In the early 1990’s BPR was proposed as a mechanism for change. However, after reports of successive BPR failures the momentum for BPR abated. This paper explores the relationship between Intranet Technology and BPR and, by means of case studies conducted in t...

Several authors and researchers have questioned the effectiveness of business process reengineering (BPR) as a holistic organizational approach especially after the demise of giant organizations all over the world. However, at a time of economic turbulence and uncertainty, BPR becomes instrumental in helping organizations reengineer existing processes and optimize them to better stay competitiv...

Business Process Redesign (BPR) and Information Architecture (IA) have been recognized as high organizational priority agenda items in the 1990s. This paper provides tile premise for integrating these two critical issues. A model depicting the relationship between IA and BPR is presented. IA design and BPR share a common focus on business processes and, when properly conducted, IA design should...

Software tools for Business Process Reengineering (BPR) promise to reduce cost and improve quality of projects. This paper discusses the contribution of BPR tools in BPR projects and identi®es critical factors for their success. A model was built based on previous research on tool success. The analysis of empirical data shows that BPR tools are related to effectiveness rather than ef®ciency of ...

nowadays bpr has become as one of the most widespread and safe management topics and a redeemer for organizations which are in the stage of destruction and ruining. although many organizations use bpr to improve their performance, researches show that about 70-80 percent of these projects were failed and remain unfinished. many researches have been even undertaken to find out reasons of these f...

1 Preliminary versions of this paper appeared in [1, 2]. Summary It is preferable for authentication and key exchange protocols to be verified automatically and rapidly in accordance with security requirements. In order to meet these requirements, we proposed the security verification method (OKT method) for the aforementioned protocols based on Bellare et al.'s model (BPR model) and showed the...