Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is an essential tool before an information system project implementation. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) projects definitely require the standardization and fixation of business processes from customer order to shipment. Therefore, ERP implementations are well proven to be coupled with BPR, although the extend and timing of BPR with respect to ERP implem...

Biological phosphorus removal (BPR) techniques offer a number of advantages over chemical addition, including enhanced treatment, reduced energy consumption, and reduced sludge production. A rapid, low-cost method for determining the feasibility of biological phosphorus removal should allow these techniques to be more widely used. A simple test is proposed to determine the amount of phosphorus ...

Over the last few years, many factors have accelerated the need to improve business processes. New methods, technologies and major changes are rapidly bringing new capabilities to businesses. One approach for rapid change and spectacular improvement is the Business Process Reengineering. BPR is an important way to build organizations more efficient, effective and modernize. BPR is considered to...

Public sector organizations in developing economies are increasingly turning to BPR to reform function-based bureaucratic systems with customer-oriented process based systems. The value of BPR, however, relies not only on process changes introduced by BPR, but also on the skills, systems, and technologies developed and deployed post-BPR. In this study, drawing from the complementary competence ...

Biomimetic Pattern Recognition (BPR) is a classification process using a constructed biological structure. BPR is derived from the Principle of Homology-Continuity, which assumes members of the same class are biologically evolved and continuously connected. Recently, BPR has been successfully used in voice, facial, and iris recognition. In this article, we develop two BPR algorithms using proxi...

The purpose of this research was to empirically determine what benefits were realized by organizations that have undertaken a Business Process Reengineering (BPR) project. The survey’s respondents indicated that they were general& satis$ed with their BPR projects. The findings suggest that BPR enabled organizations to increase productivity+ to raise the qua@ of products and services, to increas...

This paper presents an analysis result of relationship between business and information technology (IT) in business process reengineering (BPR). 258 Japanese firm-level data collected have been analyzed using structural equation modeling. This analysis was aimed to illuminating success factors of achieve effective BPR. Analysis was focused on management factors (including organizational factors...

This chapter presents an approach to BPR that is focused on achieving results from the first stages to implementation. The engineering approach presented utilizes an integrated set of methods applied incrementally. This allows BPR practitioners to more realistically approach a project; assess its impact, duration, and required budget; and mitigate the risks of failure. We present the approach a...

Biomimetic pattern recognition (BPR) has been proposed for several years, but it has never been applied to iris recognition yet. In this paper, a new iris recognition method combined with BPR was proposed here. Experiments on the CASIA iris image database show that the iris recognition method based on BPR is reliable and efficient.

In order to gain insight in tools and languages for business process modelling (BPM) and business process redesign (BPR), we present a framework for the evaluation of such languages and tools. The framework evaluates the quality of tools and languages for supporting all stages in a BPR project. It consists of four dimensions: functionality, ease of use, support of redesign trajectories, and gen...