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Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology
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Introduction
Business Process Reengineering means not only change -- but dramatic change. What constitutes dramatic change is the overhaul of organizational structures, management systems, employee responsibilities and the use of information technology.
It was introduced by Dr.Michael Hammer in 1990s
This paper presents the re-engineering work done at BHEL(Trichy) using BPR strategy in the software development and maintenance process as a CASE STUDY. It involves migration from COBOL to ORACLE based Client Server system
Successful BPR can result in enormous reductions in cost or cycle time. It can also potentially create substantial improvements in quality, customer service, or other business objectives
What is BPR?
Business 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."
FORD EXAMPLE
Reengineering – a new management buzzword.
The basic message is
Many work flows, job designs, control mechanisms, and organizational structures are either superfluous or obsolete and should be completely redesigned.
" We should reengineer our [organizations]; use the power of modern information processing technology to radically redesign our ... processes in order achieve dramatic improvements in their performance.. We cannot achieve breakthroughs in performance merely by cutting fat or automating existing processes. Rather we must challenge the old assumptions and shed old rules.“ --- Michael Hammer
Hammer illustrates reengineering with the revolution that took place in Ford’s system of accounts payable. In the early 1980’s, Ford’s auditors carefully studied accounts payable activities and concluded that, by consolidating, by rationalizing processes, and by installing new computer systems, staff could be cut twenty percent -- from 500 employees to 400.