business process re-engineering

British

noun

BPR. restructuring an organization by means of a radical reassessment of its core processes and predominant competencies

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Business process re-engineering went down that track in the 1990s and was quickly discredited as a disguised device for downsizing.

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According to one analyst, mobile engagement services, which “includes the complex services for building a full system of engagement: ethnographic research, experience design, mobile strategy, business process re-engineering, redesigning middleware, analytics, system consolidation, and upgrades to back-end services,” will grow into a $13.1 billion business by 2018.

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Organizational Risk Some IT investments bring organizational upheaval in their wake: Mass layoffs, radical business process re-engineering, and even the generalized anxiety caused by change.

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But if you paid close attention, there was a pattern at work that indicated that the fundamental idea of business process re-engineering was sound but that it failed because of exogenous factors.

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This new $32.4 billion market is comprised of three kinds of services: Mobile engagement services: This includes the complex services for building a full system of engagement: ethnographic research, experience design, mobile strategy, business process re-engineering, redesigning middleware, analytics, system consolidation, and upgrades to back-end services.

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