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...

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 ...

In this letter, we propose a blockwise phase rotation-aided analog transmit beamforming (BPR-ATB) scheme to improve the spectral efficiency and bit-error-rate (BER) performance in millimeter wave (mmWave) communication systems. Due angle optimization issues of conventional beamforming, design BPR-ATB for reducing rotated beamspace equivalent channel improving minimum Euclidean distance. To veri...

Introduction Making sense of the debate on business process reengineering (BPR) is a daunting task. One is confronted with a wide variety of contradictory interpretations. Some see it as a break with Taylorism (Davenport and Short, 1990), others see it as a direct continuation of Taylorism (Tinaikar et al., 1995). Chief proponents see it as something very different from continuous improvement (...

Agile software development methodologies have been receiving a lot of attention in recent times. Although doubts have been cast on the efficacy of these methods for very large projects, some of the techniques and practices they advocate are very appealing and are being seriously considered by many organizations. It is our contention that many of these practices are antithetical to the orthodoxy...