Topic > Business Process Reengineering - 1585

BackgroundBusiness process reengineering has widely become a significant trend in business organizations seeking to innovate and enhance business processes. It should come as no surprise that “over the past decade, numerous organizations have significantly changed their business processes to remain competitive in the global marketplace” (Hadaya &Pellerin, 2008). The text analyzes business process reengineering as a business process solution to efficiently improve information systems in the context of ERP implementations. The authors suggest that “BPR is one of the best methods for determining the need to move to an ERP system and setting high-level objectives and project implementation scope” (Motiwalla & Thompson, 2011). To comprehensively analyze business process reengineering we must analyze the concept and methodologies associated with this process. Business process reengineering is “the analysis and design of work flows and processes within an organization” (“BPR,” 2011). A key function directly related to business process reengineering is the information technology information system process. The concept of business process reengineering is often discussed in management circles seeking to improve the way things are done within an organization. If you are trying to redesign the functionality of the business process, you are effectively taking a business reengineering approach. Ultimately, this idea is “an approach to redesigning how work is done to better support the organization's mission and reduce costs” (“BPR,” 2011). If we analyze this process improvement change in the context of information technology, we find that “IT is considered one of the most important enablers of process change” (Paul & Serrano,...... half of the paper.. .... ya, P., Pellerin, R. (2008 Proposing a new framework and an innovative approach to teaching ERP reengineering and implementation concepts, Journal of Information Systems Education, 19 (1), 65-73. go .galegroup.com.Larson, M., Myers, M. (1997). BPR Success or Failure? Business Process Reengineering in the Financial Services Industry Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Information Systems ACM Digital Library. Motiwalla, L., Thompson, J. (2011). Business Systems for Management 2nd Edition Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Paul, R., Serrano, A. (2003). of Information Systems WSC '03 Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Winter Simulation: Driving Innovation. Retrieve from http://dl.acm.org.