Talk:Business Process Improvement

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Hi @all,

isn't it that BPR and BPI are two different concepts? I think yes, because the BPR concept is much more radical than that of the BPI which is iterative and the latter not. Of course one might say as long the market changes i have to do reengineering and so it is also an iterative process, but i think the iterative concept of BPI has one objective that doesn't change as long BPI runs and BPR runs once with one objective but it can also run much more but each time it has a different objective.

So this article is a little bit confusing mixing up the different concepts of BPI and BPR.

Maybe i am wrong so someone please respond.

Bye,

Ingo

You are quite right. BPR is the radical redesign of business processes (primarily organizational structure redesign), whereas BPI involves the incremental improvement of existing processes (primarily the simplification of work processes). This should be clarified in the article. mydogategodshat 02:04, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Link to "breakthrough solution" does not work.

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[edit] Tagging for buzzwords

I added the buzzword tag. Large tracts of the article seem to consist mostly of slogans; and the following prose restates the slogan or adds extremely obvious expansions of it. For example:

Establish who owns a business process: Specific people, the process owners, must be placed in charge of a business process, be responsible for the performance and changes in the process, and be responsible for the success or failure of a process. Without personal responsibility, the process may fail.

This strikes me as very abstract and uninformative. What seems to be described generally in the section is a recipe for adding more paperwork, and telling people their jobs are on the line if the numbers come back wrong. The burden described here, for instance, is not really well described as "ownership;" that abstraction seems crafted to deliberately obscure what is going on with this "process." - Smerdis of Tlön 21:01, 24 August 2006 (UTC)