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Business Process Re-engineering

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A management strategy, originally pioneered in the early 1990s, of analyzing and redesigning core business workflows and processes from a blank slate rather than automating existing ones, on the premise that most work being done does not add value for customers and should be removed rather than accelerated through technology.

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Most of the work being done in an organization does not add any value for customers, and this work should be removed rather than accelerated through automation. 1
Origin Year
1990 1
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1. Wikipedia, Business Process Re-engineering
1. Wikipedia, Business Process Re-engineering
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Most of the work being done does not add any value for customers, and this work should be removed, not accelerated through automation.
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1. Wikipedia, Business Process Re-engineering
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In 1990, Michael Hammer, a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published the article 'Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate' in the Harvard Business Review
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Hammer and James A. Champy founded the management theory of business process reengineering (BPR)
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