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Introduction
Some of the recent headlines in the popular press read:
"Walmart reduces restocking time from six weeks to thirty-six hours." Hewlett Packard's assembly time for server computers touches new low-four minutes. "Taco Bell's sales soar from $500 million to $3 billion" The reason behind these success stories: Business Process Reengineering!

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Continuous Improvement Model

Document the as is process

Establish measures

Follow process

Measure performance

Identify and implement improvement

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BPR is Continuous Improvement Model

Improving business process is effective to obtain gradual, incremental improvement. A competition exists in business driven by customer, competition and change companies look for new solution. Hence BPR guides for this problem.

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What is BPR?
"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."

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Changes through BPR



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Organizational structure Management system Employee responsibilities Performance measurement Incentive system Skill development Use of IT Process change Technology
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Scope of improvement Project

Learn from others

Create new process

Plan
transition

Implement

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Implementing BPR

Phase I: Preparing for change


Phase II: Planning for change Phase III: Designing the change Phase IV: Evaluating the change

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Phase I: Preparing for change

Educate management explores the reengineering process needs to change Create a reengineering steering committee. Develop an initial action plan. Prepare the workforce for involvement and change.
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Phase II: Planning for change


Create a vision mission & guiding principles I. Identify core competencies II. Develop vision statement III. Develop a mission statement IV. Determine the guiding principles. Develop a 3-5 year plan I. Conduct a current business review II. Determine the external environment factors. III. Conduct an internal health review IV. Complete business as usual forecasts V. Conduct a gap analyses VI. Develop a 3-5 year strategic plan
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Phase II: Planning for change


Develop yearly operational or breakthrough plans I. Develop operational objectives II. Organize resources III. Rank potential changes in order of priority IV. Develop yearly operational plans & budgets V. Apply & evaluate operational plans

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Phase III: Designing the change


Identify the current business process I. Determine the critical organizational process. II. Measure the critical processes III. Rate the process performance IV. Identify opportunities & processes to be re-engineering. Establish the scope of the process-mapping project I. Identify the process stakeholders II. Create the projects mission & goals III. Structure and select team members IV. Develop a work plan

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Phase III: Designing the change


Map & analyze the process I. Depict the process in a flow chart II. Depict the process in an integrated flow chart III. Compete the process mapping worksheet IV. Complete the process constraint analysis V. Compete the cultural factors analysis. Create the ideal process I. Describe the ideal process on paper II. Compare the current process to the ideal process III. Assess the gaps

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Phase III: Designing the change


Test the new ideal process I. Develop the pilot objectives II. Develop the pilot measures III. Gain agreement & approval from stakeholders IV. Conduct a pilot test of the new process V. Assess the impact of pilot test.

Implement the new process I. Develop the implementation action plan II. Execute the plan

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Phase IV: Evaluating the change


Review & evaluate measure I. Has the steering committee evaluated the results? II. Revise the three to four strategic plan, if necessary.

Repeat the yearly operational/breakthrough planning cycle.

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Reengineering Structure: HR, culture, believes, models


1. Accountability for results are not clearly communicated and measurable resulting in subjective and biased performance appraisals.

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3.

Parts of the organization are significantly over- or under-staffed.


Organizational inefficient. communications are inconsistent, fragmented, and

4.

Technology

and/or

innovation

are

creating

changes

in

workflow

and

production processes. 5. Significant staffing increases or decreases are contemplated.

6.Personnel retention & turnover is significant or deteriorating

7.Morale is deteriorating
8.New skills & capabilities are needed to meet expected operational requirements.
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Common Pitfalls of BPR


1. 2. 3. BPR cannot solve all the problems BPR may face many difficulties in implementation Stiff resistance may come from staff as it involves radical changes in structure, processes, methods etc. 4. BPR relies heavily on IT and it may need heavy investment in software and hardware.

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Change Management and BPR


BPR involves bringing in radical changes in organizational processes, methods, structure, etc. Change management processes: 1. Phase 1 Preparing for change (Preparation, assessment and strategy development) 2. Phase 2 Managing change (Detailed planning and change management implementation) 3. Phase 3 Reinforcing change (Data gathering, corrective action and recognition)
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TQM and BPR


TQM and BPR are customer-oriented. Improving the customer satisfaction. TQM and BPR are process-oriented with team approach. TQM assumes that the existing practices or systems are principally right and useful. BPR assumes the existing system is useless and suggests starting it over. TQM emphasis on total involvement, including all the stakeholders. For BPR, the project can be controlled to a specified area only. TQM emphasis on the use of statistical process control. However, there is no similar concern for BPR.

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Comparison between BPR vs. Kaizen


Reengineering Who leads? Usually consultants, top management, and a cross-functional Project Team Is a "project" with a defined beginning and end An entire Value Stream process Kaizen The people that actually do the work (with strong guidance in the early years by top management) Never ending. Every subprocess should be kaizened repeatedly forever Although kaizen usually starts with a kaikaku that addresses the entire Value Stream process - most kaizen events focus on one specific sub-process

Duration

Scope

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Degree of change

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Changes can be incremental or radical - and usually affect an entire integrated process

Changes can be incremental or radical but usually only affect a limited sub-process at a time

Speed

Generally implemented in a Each kaizen event Big Bang changeover generates immediately noticeable and measurable Changes High risk of things reverting back to the way they were soon after the consultants leave Re-engineering projects are often led by computer consultants - who tend to "fix most problems with (you guessed it) computers Since the people that actually do the work are the ones making the changes acceptance is very high Most "lean" methods minimize or even eliminate reliance on technology - with a preference toward visual methods and simplification
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Similarities Both address the entire Value Stream of a process. Kaizen usually starts out with a kaikaku "big change" Both require a qualified, competent, and committed Change to have any chance of success.
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