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The modern business environment

Business Process Re-engineering

(BPR)

BPR is concerned with making far-reaching one-off changes to improve
operations or processes.

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Stage 1: Stage 4: Stage 5:
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objectives. designed. (baseline). change. possible.

Illustrations and further practice

Now read the illustration ‘Business Process Re-engineering’’ from Chapter 2, and
attempt example 6 ‘BPR’.

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