Business Process Engineering(BPR) has been described as a managerial revolution. why?
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Business Processing Reengineering is a farce dreamed up by someone in the 80’s. I have the book around here somewhere gathering dust and I attended several classes on it. I have tried to erase it from my mind. The idea behind it is to streamline the organization to focus on its primary line of business, which sounds like a great concept. The problem is that most companies moving to reengineering are already in deep trouble and it is really just another name for down sizing and restructuring. In fact, it has been my experience that it actually accelerates failure because management gets tied up for months with classes, meetings and finally implementation.\n\nWell run businesses are always examining their business processes. They are also listening to their customers and examining their competition. They are keeping a sharp eye out for break through technologies without letting their businesses be caught in an endless stream of technology changes for technology’s sake. The technology companies like Oracle and SAP are great at selling “Stone Soup.” That is they tell you their software will do everything and then they provide the proverbial “pot of water with the stone in the bottom.” All their clients have to do is put millions upon millions of software development dollars into the pot to make it soup.\n\nThere are so many so called great scams out there it would make the traveling medicine salesmen of old jealous with envy. \n\nJust remember there is no replacement for good management that knows the business that it is in. Continuous study, evaluation and planning makes reengineering unnecessary for all but the very few and they will probably go out of business anyway.
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Business has never been as competitive, fast and eveloving as it is today. Easy and boundry less communication and integrating global economy is a reason for it. In such a global economy only those businessess survive which are better placed and managed.\n\nHuman resource is the most important element of any organizaiton and it is also the most difficult to manage element within the business. So managerial knowledge is utmost important in steering a business in todays global economy.\n\nStategic management is totally different. It is the process of putting the strategy together and implementing it within an organizaiton. A strategy is broadly classified in 3 level: Corporate Level Strategy, Business Unit Strategy, and Functional Level Strategy. Corporate level strategy is the strategy for the whole business, ie where the business is going, how should it grow/expand, what business areas it should concentrate and areas it should leave. Strategic managment basically deals with this segment of corporate planning.\n\nIn todays business world it is the most important function of corporate planning and business management, without which a business might loose focus, run wayward and waste resources.
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In my opinion...\n\nAnd in my 15 years experience as an EE the middle/upper positions seem to lead to management positions where one has to know both the engineering skills AND project management side (budgeting, scheduling, etc.).  Post graduate courses in Systems Engineering and Manaegment provides some of those skills, getting an MBA is probably just a step along the way of natural career progression.
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Business process outsourcing\nit means the callcentres and all
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Reengineering (or re-engineering) is the radical redesign of an organization's processes, especially its business processes. Rather than organizing a firm into functional specialties (like production, accounting, marketing, etc.) and looking at the tasks that each function performs. \n\nWe should, according to the reengineering theory, be looking at complete processes from materials acquisition, to production, to marketing and distribution. The firm should be re-engineered into a series of processes.\n\nThe main proponents of re-engineering were Michael Hammer and James Champy. In a series of books including Reengineering the Corporation, Reengineering Management, and The Agenda, they argue that far too much time is wasted passing-on tasks from one department to another. They claim that it is far more efficient to appoint a team who are responsible for all the tasks in the process. In The Agenda they extend the argument to include suppliers, distributors, and other business partners.\n\nRe-engineering is the basis for many recent developments in management. The cross-functional team, for example, has become popular because of the desire to re-engineer separate functional tasks into complete cross-functional processes. Also, many recent management information systems developments aim to integrate a wide number of business functions. Enterprise resource planning, supply chain management, knowledge management systems, groupware and collaborative systems, Human Resource Management Systems and customer relationship management systems all owe a debt to re-engineering theory.\n\nFor example BIM4U reengineers your business to bring it to its optimization. Refer www.bim4u.com for further detailks, how it is done
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Are you trying to supervise the employees of a company?  The processes by which they produce the business?  You say you have a "system" what exactly are you referring to?  There are many successful manageing techniques already in place and have become industry standards.\n\nProvide me with more detail and I will be able to help you out further.  I too have done a thesis paper on insurance.
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First, Six Sigma is arguably a very clever way of branding and packaging many aspects of Total Quality Management that exist in their own right. Six Sigma started as a defect reduction effort in manufacturing aand it has evolved into a business improvement methodology that focuses on rapid and sustainable improvement to business processes to meet customer requirements. It's also a management system as process metrics and structured methodology are applied to improvement opportunities that are directly linked to the organizational strategy. When practiced as a management system, Six Sigma is a high performance system for executing business strategy. Six Sigma is a top-down solution to help organizations. Regarding if it's good, the answer is yes and I like it: it drives clarity around the business strategy and the metrics that most reflect success with that strategy. It provides the framework to prioritize resources for projects that will improve the metrics, and it leverages leaders who will manage the efforts for rapid, sustainable, and improved business results.\n\ncheck out more on it in: \nhttp://www.pqa.net/ProdServices/sixsigma/sixsigma.html
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BPO stands for Business Process Outsourcing. \n\nA proper definition would be "Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is the leveraging of technology or specialist process to vendors to provide and manage an organisation's critical and/or non-critical enterprise processes and applications".\n\nThe most common examples of BPO are call centres, human resources, accounting and payroll outsourcing. Business process outsourcing may involve the use of off-shore resources\n\nIn short it can be defined as "When businesses outsource, shift or set up a branch, factory or office of theirs in another country/state for carrying out their business more efficiently and effectively."\n\nCoca Cola, Pepsi, Microsoft, McDonnelds, IBM, etc are few of the examples of BPO
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To develop we need to streamline so we need Business Process Re Engineering. Of course your land has to free and ready for it all. If it's a country where war rages then you would social process re engeering, if that exists. I think in a country like India - go for it
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sounds new to me. but people are changing the way they operate business. maybe u should consult a your manager about this sitaution
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R2 www.csulb.edu/~dmcelroy/IS300 Chap 1.doc  \n... the major pressures in the business environment & describe the major ... The major areas in which IT supports BPR are the following; ...www.csulb.edu/~dmcelroy/IS300 Chap 1.doc \nwww.csulb.edu/~rolsson/300ISS2003/PP/Chap1.ppt  \n... the major pressures in the business environment & describe the major ... The major areas in which IT supports BPR are the following; ...www.csulb.edu/~rolsson/300ISS2003/PP/Chap1.ppt \nWharton MBA Resource Guide - Curriculum  \nRequirements for the Major. a) BPUB 621 Government and Legal Environment of Business ... The speed of technological change, global competitive pressures ...www.wharton.upenn.edu/mbaresource/curriculum/mbamajor_bpub.html \nTotal Quality Management (TQM) Tutorial/Help Page (Overview) \nWith the advent of ISO 9001 Standard, the philosophy of Total Quality Managment is coming back. ... from integrating total quality management (TQM) : lessons ...home.att.net/~iso9k1/tqm/tqm.html - 37k - Cached - More from this site \nTotal Quality Management \nWinsor address Total Quality Management (TQM)-- the lodestone of the Deming/Drucker methodology: ... economic phenomenon, total quality management has been ...www.crossroad.to/Quotes/TQM.html -\nCycle-Time Reduction: "As Is" vs. "Should Be" (PDF) \nconcept of total cycle-time reduction. ... The concept of cycle-time reduction seemed to ... 90-percent reduction of cycle time. Once the unnecessary steps ...www.masetllc.com/pdfs/105.pdf - 56k - View as html - More from this site \nTimely Business Tips -- CPA Associates International \n... manufacturing world latched onto the concept of Cycle Time Reduction decades ago. ... As you can see, cycle time reduction can be applied to many processes ...www.cpaai.com/timely_tips_archive/october_02_2000.html - 8k - Cached - More from this site \nFactors In Cycle Time Reduction: (PDF) \n... contributed to the reduction in cycle time and therefore the ... arrived The concept was not well understood and met resistance as being a. waste of time. ...members.aol.com/qualtar/fttm97.pdf
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No. Different places, and different countrys have had many inovations in management.\n\nSome companies have gone to a Japaneese style. Some believe in Taylor, or carrot and stick, or drum and rope, Goldratt, etc. All of these styles and more are being used. \n\nManagement is a study, and some companies use workers like lab rats, some are great places to work, and still others treat their employees like monkeys.\n\nIn the US, the Union gained acceptance, forcing change. It is an interesting field, but takes a lot of reaserch.
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You don't say whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student, but I will assume you're an undergrad. One of the most difficult tasks in the "real world" of business is finding and retaining good "middle managers." Much has been written on the topic, but no one has emerged with a workable solution. That leaves it wide open for you to offer constructive suggestions, and you have a wide array of reference material. Good luck!
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In this dynamic world things keep on changing due to technological development. example the ATMs installed in the banks have made the job of cashiers vanish. Similarly the computers are changing the job patterns and hence each organization has to restruture their employees nature of job they have to perform so that the idle labour is weeded out and only people are posted to places where their is work. This naturally results in change of job name , their pay scales etc, etc all this put together is known as restructuring.
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You cannot get all these answers online.  You need to go to an academic library.  You will find entire sections on each segment of your question.  You need to distinguish tools, which is what you mostly read about, and the topic.  A naive reader such as yourself will miss that each tool, such as Six Sigma, ISO or CMM, has assumptions that must be met but are usually not described well in their literature.\n\nAll of these have professional programs to train for implementation.  I spent three years researching the questions you have asked.  You need to find an industrial engineering department, find a quality assurance professor, and have them narrow down the topic to your very specific needs.  Some tools, such as the CMM are industry specific.  Others, while technically not industry specific don't work well in certain settings.\n\nI suggest reading "Out of the Crisis," by W. Edwards Deming and "Quality is Free," by Philip Crosby.\n\nYour question cannot be answered online because it is the equivalent of asking a physician, "what are the uses for an MRI machine, I need to know the full details ....," or an attorney, "what are the complete range of uses for arbitration, I need to know the full details...."  There are excellent resources online, but you lack the background to use them as intended.\n\nOne note on "Out of the Crisis," the statistical techniques in the book are outdated.  They were based upon pre-computer limitations and would not longer be considered valid in all cases because more appropriate techniques are available now.\n\nOh yes, you will need a good basic understanding of management science, behavioral psychology, statistics and a little process engineering wouldn't hurt either.  All of these tools are about changing the behavior of the most senior level of management in order to permit the lowest level of the organization to change into something that is very effective.
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Ok Management is stroger, but you have to think also about the development. Management can be a boss but you have to know how to development and know all about the resources for doing a successful plan to a project :-)
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Business Data Processing (BDP): Data processing in accounting or business management\n\nScientific Data Processing (SDP): Data processing in experiments, or computations using data collected from such activities.