Introduction
In today’s ever-changing world, the only thing that doesn’t change is ‘change’ itself. In a world increasingly driven by the three Cs: Customer, Competition and Change. Many companies are on the lookout for new solutions for their business problems. Recently, some of the more successful business corporation in the world seem to have hit upon an incredible solution: Business Process Re-engineering (BPR).
BPR is known by many names, such as ‘core process redesign’, ‘new industrial engineering’ or ‘working smarter’. All of them imply the same concept which focuses on integrating both business process redesign and deploying IT to support the re-engineering work. (Yih Chang Chen, 2001)
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Business process re-engineering (BPR) is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business process to achieve dramatic improvement in critical areas, contemporary measure of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed according to Hammer & Champy, 1993.
BPR's main objective is to break away from old ways of working, and effect radical (not incremental) redesign of processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical areas (such as cost, quality, service, and response time) through the in-depth use of information technology also called business process redesign. It focuses on process and not tasks, jobs or people.
Business process reengineering is a radical change activity that cannot be repeated if it goes wrong the first time. It is often a high risk activity that involves monetary investment and a risk of demotivated employees. In is essential to have buy in all the way from top management down and it should have a broad functional
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The business process has to make fundamental changes to improve productivity and quality. Fundamental is the term of what and how. The term “What” represent as a static performance. It relates to the operations which the company has to perform to achieve the business objective. And “How” describe as the sequence of the performance. The sequence of activities would be carried out in order to accomplish an operation. If “what” is an input a data-entry from a customer, then “how” is the sequential of the input process of a data-entry. The method of carrying out the activities of the defined operation can vary from time to time according to the change of technology, customer expectation and company
iv. Which activities will be done in this phase? 1. Backup old system. 2.
Performance objectives? Strategies? Action Steps for
With the use of this framework in reengineering its call centers and the automation of manual processes through call centers. Malaysia Airlines was able to achieve the following: Cutting call center costs by 18% and tripling sales, through phone, e-mail, fax, and web chat they were able to service customers, Interactive voice response or online ticket payment, and Tracking of agent productivity done by managers. In doing the following, they were able to streamline their processes. Malaysia Airlines measure the strategic metric. It measures the functional goals so that Malaysia Airlines can boost their customer payment capabilities.
Evaluation of the data defined will play an instrumental role in the process improvement written procedure, therefore enhancing operational
• To check the physical resources and scope of technical alliances with arrival of VC. • To detect more financial, technical, and industrial expertise prior to applying VC. • To develop and implement accelerated market presence. To define the strategic capabilities of Premier Inn, it is worth to mention its dependence on the macro-environment.
This all can be achieved by first examining the good performance of
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The company could also invest on human resource by recruiting high caliber workers, training, and have attractive compensating employees to lower turnover and talents, which could be taken by its
That requires a thorough analysis of the expected benefits in relation to the degree of business change. A change that affects the entire organization would have the potential to increase business revenue substantially. As change grows in cost and complexity, the higher will be the scope of change and, subsequently, different strategies should be introduced. Once the degree of change is determined, a suitable delivery program for the organization should guide all change effort.
It would aim at establishing a strong customer lifetime value. It would also search for new markets in other
Step one is to identify all key stakeholders of the company. Step two is to work out their power, interest and influence so you know who to focus more on. Step three is to develop a good understanding of the key stakeholders so you can figure out how to win
Process Strategies The process strategies, for such a large manufacturing company, would need to be varied. The production process type would be determined by the product life cycle stage at that time (Thayer 2004).Product life cycles for items such as smartphones and tablets do not generally follow the standard life cycle stages. The maturity stage can be interrupted by discontinuation or irrelevance of a technology, which recommences the cycle (Giachetti & Marchi 2010). Incidentally, during the product life cycle of these items, a cyclic improvement of both process and product is required to stay in contact with market changes.
Nestle is considered one of the largest food and beverage company worldwide. Nestle first opened its factory in 1866 in New Zealand and have successfully grow and recognize all over the world. Today, nestle own branches almost in every country in Europe, South America, Asia and other continents. The products that they produce are coffee, bottled water, milk products, tea, breakfast cereals, biscuits, baby food and many more. Looking at their annual report, their revenues clearly state that they are the most preferred food and beverage.
Process Drive to achieve functional excellence and integration across all major processes. - Core supply chain processes driving the business. - Best in class approaches to our core processes (manufacturing, integrated demand planning, procurement, cycle-time, compression, dynamic deployment) - Bulk linkages with suppliers and customers. C. Organization Providing the critical success factors of cohesion, harmony and integration across organization entities - Level of cross functional integration is required to manage core processes effectively - Leverage cross-company skills and abilities - Performance measurement and reporting structure help to achieve objectives D. Technology Empowers the Supply Chain to operate on a new level of performance and is creating clear competitive advantages for those companies able to harness it.
Question - How might a manager redesign the job of a person who delivers newspapers to raise levels of the core job dimensions identified by the job characteristics model? Solution- Redisgning of job includes taks, responsibilties and duties of a job so as to make it more encouraging and inspiring for the employees and workers. Advantages of Job Redesign Enhances the Quality of Work- Job redesigning motivates the employees and enhances the quality of work . It increases their on-the-job productivity and encourages them to perform better.