Business Process Redesign or Reengineering
Business Process Redesign (BPR) or Reengineering is "the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed" (Hammer and Champy, Reengineering). Since the BPR idea has surfaced it has been under constant ridicule by the popular press.
They say it takes far too long, creates management headaches, fails 70% of the time, and it's only for big companies with big checkbooks (Hydrel...). However,
I feel that with the right plan, the right people, and total commitment from those involved, BPR or Reengineering can work for
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The new computer system will also be used by the quality team to update their new metrics system. The quality team developed a completely new system for the reengineering process. This new metrics system continually updates them on changes in the market that deal with quality. This is important so they can deal with the changes right away and stay competitive. And finally the information team came in to wrap up the whole process and implement the new computer system.
They design a system that fit the current demands but is able to grow and expand a the same rate as the company.
Due to total commitment from the right people, using the right methods
Hydrel has successfully reengineered the process of order management and positioned the company for dramatic profitable growth. And they have proved my statement that reengineering can work for every company no matter what their size. The Texas Commerce Bank Experience
In early 1994, Texas Commerce Bank (TCB) launched a reengineering process called Process Improvement, which included every organizational process and all 9,000 employees (Betting...). TCB's goals for their program were: remove all employee frustrations associated with policies, processes, services, or products; change processes to improve quality, deliver improved service to customers, and eliminate unnecessary expenses (Betting...). However, TBC took a
The ordering process begins with the decision of the customer to submit their order simply by either calling, faxing or mailing their order information. When a customer calls in their order, the customer service representatives takes down pertinent customer information, which includes the customer's name, billing and shipping address, product number and description, quantity and shipping instructions. While taking down the order, the customer service representative access the company's order entry system where inventory checks are conducted as well as credit checks are processed. In addition, delivery options are advised to the customer. Here the customer decides
competition, both in attributes and in products. In order to supply an attribute that no
Loss of control of the licensee manufacture and marketing operations and practices leading to loss of quality.
The competition among rivals is very high due to price and non-price factors. Companies try to attract customers to their products by introducing
quality. As reforms continue to ensue organizations must stay abreast of these changes to guarantee their livelihood.
Speedup time to market. Because there are more people involved the process of innovation is faster
such as enhancing its differentiated appeal and improving its cost structure because it was losing its
Marketplace, especially in technology business is growing fast and constantly bringing the new offers to the consumers. As a society we have an ongoing strive for newer and better things. It’s a part of the nature and it might seem like a race, but we tend to think that we can always have something improved. We get a phone, but the new model comes out a month later. We are most likely to go and get the new one, because it has more functions than our other phone. Do we really need that new phone? Probably not, but it’s the need for the newer and better things that will always be there and rule the marketplace. It is a great opportunity for the businesses to grow and to satisfy the consumer’s needs.
Increased competition in the market and other environment changes resulting in adverse impacts to financial performance,
to financial issues or threats of losing future contracts. Quality control has been an essential
18. A front office structure features high levels of customer contact where the service provider interacts directly with the internal or external customer.
Starting with hardware, the systems that a company chooses to rely on to run its business will have a big influence on how effectively they can scale over time
In today's business world, corporations have become more complex and more unpredictable, in fact it is considered almost "healthy" that a corporation experience change and transformation. Companies need to be susceptible and ready to acknowledge the challenges that change presents with and try to overcome these for the benefit of the company as a whole. Due to the ever-changing business and social environments caused strongly by globalizations, this has meant that companies must keep themselves up-to-date, whether it is through using the latest form of technology or through the latest management fad. There are many factors involved with change and the successful management of it which can often be a difficult time for
This could be company strengths, current market penistrationpenetration, supplier agreements and simply all of the business and/or customer loyalties that they have had. Also in today’s market the consumers are looking for the “next new thing”. They no longer want an extension of what they already have. The consumers are loyal to a company, but can quickly change focus if a company fails to continue to change to meet their needs and/or demands for change.
The key force for change was firstly the economic change. Given the rise of globalisation and in turn increased competition, change played an important part to maintain market share and further more increase it. Secondly change in pricing trends created the need to offer added value and new innovative products that would offer value for money (Rivkin et al, 2005).