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Move over Enterprise 2.0, it's now Social Business Design

Given the relatively friendly pounding I took over my Enterprise 2.0 - what a crock post, it's gratifying to see that it has stirred some interesting interpretations and thoughts on the topic. That's always good and especially pleasing when one considers that most blog posts are the equivalent of digital...

Tags: BPR, Enterprise 2.0, Re-engineering, Cohen, Oliver Marks, Business Process Engineering, Organizational Structure, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Human Resources, It Operations, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-21

A Simulation Modelling-Based Investigation of the Impact of IT Infrastructure on Business Process Reengineering

The literature on Business Process Reengineering BPR has promoted business process reengineering as an essential element in helping organizations to achieve their goals. The literature has further claimed that Information Technology IT is a major enabler of business process reengineering. Despite all these claims, there has been hardly any effort...

Tags: Business Process, IT Infrastructure, Information Technology, BPR, Synthesis Methodology, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Operational Planning, It Operations, Business Operations

White papers 2008-10-01

Offshore Business Process Re-Engineering & Application Development for a Leading European Hotel Reservation Company

The client had a legacy system, which had a number of inadequacies including gaps in functionality poor integration between internal modules as well as with external 3rd party systems. Customers could only post their booking requests and the booking processing as well as the confirmation processing was being carried out...

Tags: Offshore, Business Process, BPR, Booking, Calsoft Labs, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Hardware Upgrade, Software Development, Linux, J2Ee, Middleware, Development Tools, Operational Planning, Outsourcing, It Operations, Hardware, Software/Web Development, Operating Systems, Software, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting

Case studies 2008-01-01

Beyond BPM: Runtime SOA

Beyond BPM: Runtime SOABusiness "Nirvana"I agree with Ron. SOA is indeed one step forward in the abstraction of the process layer from the implementation layer.Basically, we should be able to layer business processes over the constituent application modules that comprise these business processes. The processes themselves could comprise and be...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Operational planning, Business process reengineering (BPR), Web services, Enterprise software, Strategy, BPM, Ronald, business process, SOA, BPR

Discussion threads 2005-07-12

Business Process Reengineering Manufacturing Industry Perspective

The manufacturing industry today is significantly challenged by slow growth and a tough global economy. In order to remain competitive in the global marketplace, manufacturers are adopting radical corporate strategies, like flattening the organization, globalizing production, forming strategic alliances with customers, suppliers and competitors, merging with other companies to form...

Tags: Business Process, Wipro Technologies, BPR, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Operational Planning, It Operations, Business Operations

White papers 2004-03-30

BPM 2.0: Process without Programming

This white paper focuses on business process management BPM which is used to describe the new generation of technology designed to automate, integrate, and optimize processes across the extended enterprise. While it shares some characteristics with the workflow and business process reengineering technology of the 1990s, BPM is based on...

Tags: Business Process, BPM, BPR, Programming, Bruce Silver Associates, Operational Planning, Business Process Automation, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Strategy, Enterprise Software, Business Operations, It Operations, Management, Software

White papers 2003-10-27

Business Process Re-Engineering: Creating Opportunities for Evolution or Revolution

As organizations begin to adopt modern approaches for their analytic and business intelligence needs, many are taking notice of how feature-rich these technologies are, and are assessing whether or not they should simply migrate to these newer technologies and use it as they have in the past, or evaluate the...

Tags: Business Process, BPR, Organization, ThotWave Technologies, Pricing, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, It Operations, Software, Data Management, Management

Webcasts

Comprehensive Re-Engineering With SAP R/3

Pharmaceuticals company Pfizer Germany combined migration to SAP R/3 with comprehensive business process re-engineering efforts. Greater efficiency through optimized processes and improved customer service were the objectives for the project which had been initiated by the Top Management. The implementation was completed successfully in 1998, giving Pfizer stable foundations for...

Tags: Business Process, Pfizer Inc., SAP R/3, SAP AG, BPR, Re-engineering, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Operational Planning, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), It Operations, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Case studies

Additional Resources

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionals

Swine flu? What it means for IT professionalsSwine Flu is not Bird FluOur company's plan for bird flu is *wildly* different than for this one. We used the 1918 Spanish Flu as our bird flu model, which has a 1% fatality rate for healthy 20-40 year olds.If something like that...

Tags: fatality, H1N1 flu, VPN, What it means

Discussion threads 2009-04-29

Rescuing software trainwrecks, without sacrificing goats

Rescuing software trainwrecks, without sacrificing goatsSome good advice, but goats can still be usefulWhat you need is a special business process reengineering goat.Instead of the usual complex and time consuming hunting around for someone to blame, with the task split over several departments, the goat, following the principles of BPR,...

Tags: Business process reengineering (BPR), software, goat

Discussion threads 2007-09-07

Next big thing?

Next big thing?MaybeI see the logic of Mike Neven's argument, but I doubt his prognosis.Software companies able to handle content and data? Software companies able to handle Business Process Re-Engineering BPR?Nevins' comment: "Enterprise customers complain that software vendors disappoint all too often. However, if you examine many of...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Oracle Corp., Neven, software, Extranet, Information and Communication Technology, software company, Nevins

Discussion threads 2005-07-21

The new alignment

The new alignmentYou have a choiceEither change your business processes to conform to the software or visa-versa. Problems are: Change is hard - and good software is hard to write. Result? Too hard . . .Why align to marketing buzz-word vapor?Sadly, SOA is just the latest marketing buzz-word. There...

Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, SOA, Web

Discussion threads 2005-02-18

isModeler 3.6.1 (Windows)

A process modeling software package for the PC. It is an extremely powerful yet flexible tool that assists users in creating and maintaining a thorough understanding of their business process.Featuring an intuitive interface, and a wide range of tools for the user, is/Modeler has been used for activity based costing...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Training, Modeling, Modus Operandi, Research & Development, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Web Site Development, Productivity, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Business Operations, It Operations, Internet, Human Resources

Software downloads 2001-01-04

CA Solutions Help illycaffe Grow Their Business Without Growing Their IT Budget - And Keep the Coffee Flowing to Over 130 Countries

Founded in 1933, illycaffe is in the business of coffee. illycaffe's sales grew over 8% from 2003 to 2004, and they continue to grow. This means more employees, more distributors and an increasingly complex IT infrastructure that needed to accommodate a significant rise in demand. Naturally, this growth called for...

Tags: IT Budget, Information Technology, Computer Associates International Inc., Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Operational Planning, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Automation (SFA), Strategy, It Services, It Operations, Business Operations, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

Case studies

Sukhmani: Process Reengineering to Improve Government-Citizen Interfaces

Government of Punjab has realized the potential of Information Technology for SMART (Simple, Moral, Accountable, Responsive and Transparent) governance. With a view to offer an integrated set of services to the citizens, the Sukhmani Society for Citizen Services was created. To ensure that services were handled in a timely manner,...

Tags: SLA, Clearance, Process Reengineering, Service Level Management, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), Government, It Operations, It service Management

Case studies