week 7 : BPR methodologies

reference:
1. http://webs.twsu.edu/whitman/papers/ijii99muthu.pdf

content:

BPR methodologies are methodologies that stem from differences between business activities and organizational strategy, current and desired productivity of organizational resources. It enhances the process of reengineering and helps engineer to solve problems.

In the lecture note, BPR methodologies have 5 phrases which are triggering and executive visioning, BPR project mobilization, process redesign, implementation and organizational transformation, monitoring and maintaining.

In the first phrase, analyst research which process in the business is inefficient and plan how this process should work. The inefficient process may be due to there are many errors in the process, great complexity.  After identifying the processes needed to redesign, they are prioritized according to the importance of the process. In phrase two, a BPR team is formed and selected a process to redesign. In phrase three, process will be redesign. AS-IS will be analyzed and improve it which become the TO-BE process. Then, implement the TO-BE process and continuously monitor and maintain it.

After searching in the Internet, there are some other BPR methodologies from contemporary literature. I will introduce consolidated methodology. There are also five phrases to conduct the BPR project. They are preparing for BPR, mapping and analyzing AS-IS process, designing TO-BE process, implementing reengineered processes, improving continuously.

Planning and preparation are almost the most importance step in the BPR project. If it does worse, the remaining works become meaningless. It takes a look on which process is the worst in the business and what factors affect it. Some professors argued that there is no need to analyze the AS-IS process. However, the article I read mentions it is important to understand the value of an AS-IS process and analyze it. This can enhance the redesign of the TO-BE process. The main objective of the second phrase is to identify what factors make the process useless. After that, phrase three, design TO-BE process, carries out and implement the TO-BE process. In phrase four, some measurements are conducted in order to evaluate the new process. Finally, the process will be improved continuously.

Comparing the consolidated methodology with the methodology in the note, they are quite similar. I think the key point is to do the preparation and planning well, clearly identify which process needs to redesign and what is the weakness of it. Then, the BPR project is going into succeed.