Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose how to minimize the risks of implementing business process reengineering (BPR) by measuring readiness. For this purpose, the paper proposes an assessment approach for readiness in BPR efforts based on the critical success and failure factors. Design/methodology/approach – A relevant literature review, which investigates success and failure indic...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Persistent generalized status epilepticus (SE) is associated with alterations of cerebral perfusion (CP). Because perfusion-weighted MR imaging (PWI) allows noninvasive CP-determination, the aim of this study was to investigate CP alterations during acute experimental SE correlated with SE-induced neuronal cell loss. METHODS The rat pilocarpine model was used to induce ...

Current literature on business process re-engineering (BPR) lacks detailed guidance and support for the actual execution of re-engineering. Many publications illustrate the situation before and after BPR; but do not discuss the path that has been travelled to reach the final situation. We think that it is possible to provide tools to support practitioners executing BPR projects. In our research...

BACKGROUND/AIM This study aimed to define the frequency of a primitive reflex, the buccopalpebral reflex (BPR), and its association with the clinical situation in patients with Parkinson disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between May 2010 and May 2011, 222 patients, 115 with Parkinson disease and 107 patients without any sign of neurodegenerative disease, were included in the study. All included ...

OBJECTIVE To define a new primitive reflex named the buccopalpebral reflex (BPR), and to investigate this reflex clinically and neurophysiologically in patients with Parkinson disease. METHODS This prospectively designed study included 17 patients, 9 BPR positive patients, and 8 BPR negative patients in Ankara Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey, and was carried out between January...

Financial institutions and banks continuously claim to provide customer driven services. For this banks and financial institutions are adopting the unique concept of business process reengineering i.e., fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of the business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed....

Recently, it has been reported that biological phosphorus removal (BPR) can be induced by an aerobic/extended-idle (AEI) regime. This study further investigated the effect of initial pH ranging from 6.6 to 8.2 on BPR in the AEI process, and compared the BPR performance between the AEI and the anaerobic/oxic (A/O) regimes under their optimal initial pH value. Experimental results firstly showed ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of alignment between IT and business strategy and IT infrastructure capability on BPR project performance and implementations in organizations. The research model was developed based on an intensive literature review of conceptual and empirical studies of BPR implementation in organizations. Questionnaires were sent out to senior managers and p...

We test three practitioner theories-in-use of business process redesign derived from the business process reengineering (BPR) literature using a positivist case study of a U.S. company that undertook BPR. The evidence refutes the domi-