In a world increasingly driven
by the three Cs: Customer,
Competition and Change,
well-performing companies are
continuously looking out for new
solutions for their business
problems. Some of the more
successful business corporations
use an intense process variously
called
Business Process
Reengineering (BPR) or
Business Process Analysis. It is also known
as
Business Process Redesign, Business
Transformation, or
Business Process Change Management.
BPR is an intense analysis of all current
processes to develop new and fundamental
improvements in operating methods. It is not used
for tweaking or making minor incremental
improvements in systems. The basic principle is to
comprehensively design or redesign processes that
achieve and sustain a level of output that maximizes
value-added processes and to do so quickly in a
manner that successfully embraces and implements
change usually major change.
The focus is on processes and is not limited to
simply thinking about organizations. It assumes as a
mantra that the organization is only as effective as
its processes. So, what is a process? A business
process is a series of steps designed to produce a
product or a service. It includes all the activities
and resources that deliver particular results for a
given customer (external or internal).
Breckenhill has a consolidated methodology that
provides a practical structured approach to what is
often a complex undertaking with serious impact on
the way work gets done. Our methodology is designed
to facilitate understanding, to enable communication
with client management and to manage the impact on
those most affected by what is frequently dramatic
change.
BPR: The surest way to the
Top!
For Breckenhill a critical success factor for
BPR begins with the development of executive
consensus on the importance of reengineering and the
link between breakthrough business goals and
reengineering projects. Ours is a clearly visible
value chain approach.
A mandate for change is produced and a
cross-functional team is established with a game
plan for reengineering.
The Team is a tightly knit integrated squad
of your best people and Breckenhill experts. Our
approach trains your team and, in addition to
improved processes, through skill transfer leaves
that additional value on the table. While forming
the cross-functional team, steps are taken to ensure
that the organization continues to function in the
absence of several key players.
An intense customer focus, superior process
design and a strong and motivated leadership are
vital ingredients to the recipe for the success of
any business corporation. Reengineering is the key
that every organization should possess to attain
these prerequisites to success. BPR doesn't offer a
miracle cure on a platter. Nor does it provide a
painless quick fix. Rather it advocates strenuous
hard work and activates the people involved not only
to change what they do, but alters their very way of
thinking. We shift corporate culture when it's
required.
Re-engineering is the basis for many recent
developments in management. The cross-functional
team has become popular because of the desire to
re-engineer previously separate functional tasks
into complete cross-functional processes. Also, many
recent management information systems developments
aim to integrate a wide number of business
functions. Enterprise resource planning, supply
chain management, knowledge management systems,
groupware and collaborative systems, human resource
management systems and customer relationship
management systems all owe a debt to re-engineering
theory. Breckenhill has the expert technological
skill-set to work in all these areas.
The Breckenhill team of BPR experts has worked in
the following sectors:
- Assembly
- Manufacturing
- Mining
- Warehousing
- Food Industry
- Foundries
- Printing
- Paper & Paperboard mills
- Mail/Package sorting and delivery
- Communications, Insurance
- Federal Government
- Provincial/State Government
- Municipal Government
