business process re-engineering

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restructuring an organization by means of a radical reassessment of its core processes and predominant competenciesAbbreviation: BPR

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How to use business process re-engineering in a sentence

I was a little mystified at how benignly he responded to my questions about his business activities.
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This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.
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“Competition is there, of course, but I think there is enough business for everyone as long as the demand is there,” he says.
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In the process, we get straightjacketed into emotionally distant, competitive lives.
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Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
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He remembered something—the cherished pose of being a man plunged fathoms-deep in business.
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Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
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On certain of the stems the fertile cone appears and the spores are ripened about June, after which the process withers.
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By the second process, it is made to the advantage of the issuer of the notes to hasten their withdrawal himself.
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A letter from Fajardo to the king (December 10, 1621) concerns various matters of administration and business.
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