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...

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has been hailed as a cure for many of the woes in today’s organizations. Many organizations have embarked on BPR but the results have been mixed. Failure is not uncommon but this does not appear to have affected the BPR drive to achieve dramatic improvements in organizational performance. The pragmatic goal-driven approaches adopted by corporations and other...

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is considered by many to have ‘had its day’ with scholars such as Hansen (Foster, 1994) stating that BPR is a misnomenor, and goes onto conclude that re-engineering does not exist because business systems were never engineered in the first place, they simply developed. Yet, others such as Hales and Savoie, (1994) and Irani et al., (1997) argue that BPR is a...