The process of taking a broader look at how to redo a system.
Reengineering changes the way work processes are carried out, to better serve the customer, client, or citizen. Reengineering is a strategy to redefine, and perhaps reduce, the business processes of an organization. Workforce reduction may be part of reengineering. Today, information technology is usually central to the reengineering of business processes. Synonyms: process management, process redesign.
A new invention or more commonly, a fundamental, radical or spectacular change. Used especially as regards management of entrerpise
A performance improvement approach with two unique features: (1) focus on improving the performance of a set of interrelated activities or a process rather than a function or a department. (2) attempt to fix all relevant 7S levers simultaneously.
Means reinvent, reevaluate, reexamine, redesign, and redo.
The redesigning of business and work processes, policies or organizational structure.
Currently popular corporate term used to describe the act of rethinking and restructuring the processes of a company before overhauling the computer systems within that company. The lesson it seeks to teach is that if you don't go through this rethinking process, the result of the computer overhaul may just be the same mistakes and problems as before, but generated one hundred times faster.
essentially means doing things differently. The goal is to apply people, technology and processes in a more rational way in order to better support the business strategies and business objectives in today's environment.
The redesign and restructuring of business processes. It involves rethinking of business activities, information flows, and organizational forms from a whole systems perspective.
Business Process Reengineering. The radical transformation of a business process to achieve orders of magnitude improvement in one or more performance measures relating to fitness-for-purpose, quality, cycle-time, and cost; usually requiring the application of technology enablers. Reengineering projects typically take a minimum of two years to complete.
redesigning processes requiring input from every employee in the company to achieve dramatic improvements in cost, quality, service, and speed.
a fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of processes and systems (administrative and clinical) to achieve dramatic improvements in medical outcomes, cost, quality, capital, service, and speed.
The process of redesigning a product, system or process (e.g. administrative) to be more effective or efficient. [D03227] RMW
Syn: business process reengineering.
A fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance. A term used to describe the process of making (usually) significant and major revisions or modifications to business processes. Also called Business Process Reengineering.
Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical, contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, service, and speed. It involves going back to the beginning and inventing a better way of doing work. ( Hammer & Champy, 1993, pp. 31-32)
Rebuilding a process to suit some new purpose; for example, a new business process.
Also called Business Process Quality Management or Process Management. The concept of defining macro and micro processes, assigning ownership, and creating responsibilities of the owners.
Rethinking and redesigning work to improve cost, service, and speed.
Rather than organizing a firm into functional specialties (like production, accounting, marketing, etc.) and looking at the tasks that each function performs, we 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.