Business Process Re-Engineering and the BPR

Essay from the year 2013 in the subject Computer Science - Commercial Information Technology, University of Applied Sciences Graz, language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the topic and my personal thoughts of "Business Process Re-Engineering" (BPR). In detail, aspects on how companies evolved so that they cannot compete today as well as the importance of BPR get explained and analyzed. Further BPR in terms of projects gets discussed and finally the strategic role of IT for BPR will be analyzed.As a last, a short summary will reflect the most important aspects of the essay. All thoughts are based on the book "Reengineering the Corporation" by Michael Hammer and theComputerworld article by Thomas H. Davenport; other sources are stated.The term Re-Engineering itself contains several aspects. There is the topic of radical redesigning and improvement of work which plays a main role in Re-Engineering. Further the attacking of broad, cross-functional business processes is also crucial when talking about Re-Engineering. Finally, there is also another important part, namely the use of IT. IT is seen as an enabler of new ways of working in today's society. Also I personally think that IT is an enabler that can help an organization in different kind of ways.