EBK BUSINESS DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY
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Business process Reengineering (BPR) Plan:
- It denotes a standardized activity set that would complete an explicit task of customer order processing.
- BPR denotes analysis and workflow redesign within organization.
- To improve performance organization should revise its goals, decisions and targets.
- The project team would start with a clean paper sheet and restructure process for increasing efficiency.
- It assumes that current process is irrelevant and it needs to start from scratch.
- All aspects of business and process are been questioned...
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