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Business Process Reengineering

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Business Process Redesign

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Business process reengineering refers to a substantial change of a company’s organizational processes that (i) is enabled by the implementation of new information technologies that were not previously used by the company, (ii) takes an interfunctional (or interorganizational) perspective, i.e., involves multiple organizational functions (or organizations) that cooperate along processes (iii) considers end-to-end processes, i.e., processes that deliver a service to a company’s customers, (iv) emphasizes the integration of information and related information technologies to obtain seamless technological support along processes.

Historical Background

In 1993, Hammer and Champy [3] introduced the concept of business process reengineering as a radical and fast change of organizational processes that leverages information technology. Their work was the first of a wave of research contributions that analyzed the role and impact of information...

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  1. Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy

    Chiara Francalanci

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Francalanci, C. (2009). Business Process Reengineering. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_43

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