business process reengineering
- noun
- /ˈbɪznəs ˈprɑːsɛs ˌriːˈɪndʒɪnɪrɪŋ/
- Specialized
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reingeniería de procesos empresariales
- The goal of business process reengineering is to redesign workflows for better performance.
- business process reengineering (BPR)
Examples
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Companies often implement business process reengineering to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
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Business process reengineering (BPR) analyzes a series of business events (Denna et al., 1995) to identify their objectives and develop the most efficient and effective process to achieve them.
Academic text (1996) -
Key words: business process reengineering, corporate culture, human capital, human resource management, organizational change, strategic management, wellness
Academic text (2003) -
Back in 1995, I was driving Accenture's (then Andersen Consulting) business process reengineering practice.
Blog text (2) -
Key Words: Data ownership, Process ownership, Event-driven solutions, Business process reengineering, Usability testing, Prototyping, Information warehouse, Human factors test group.
Academic text (1996) -
Successful business process reengineering (BPR) has been elusive, particularly in addressing mundane business issues such as employee disbursements (King 1994).
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These may be used as a more complete source of additional background material for instructors, or as primary material for students in courses containing more extensive coverage of knowledge management, such as an ERP or business process reengineering (BPR) course.
Academic text (2003) -
By adopting business process reengineering, organizations can achieve significant improvements in quality.
How Extensive
- Specialized
27
3.7
Surface Forms
Morphology
business + process + reengineer
The meaning is directly compositional: 'reengineering' (redesigning/modifying) applied to 'business process' (company workflows) yields the literal sense of redesigning business workflows to improve performance. Although it is technical register, a learner who knows the constituent words can infer the MWE's meaning without prior exposure.
Etymology
The term business process reengineering combines business process, meaning the steps a company uses to do work, and reengineering, meaning taking something apart and rebuilding it to work better. Imagine a team taking a machine apart, changing parts, and putting it back together so it runs faster and costs less, so the phrase means 'redesigning how a company works' to make it much better.