3 posts tagged with "BPR"

By John Matthews, BusinessWeek, 1995

It’s 1995, and if you’re working in American business, you can’t have missed it: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the word on everyone’s lips. Boardrooms, management seminars, and business school classrooms are abuzz with talk of radical change, organizational transformation, and the promise of a new era of productivity. If the 1980s were the decade of quality and incremental improvement, the 1990s have become the age of bold reinvention — and at the center of it all are two men: Michael Hammer and James Champy.

The BPR Boom: Why Every Enterprise is Rethinking the Way it Works (1990s)​

By the early 1990s, the business world was experiencing seismic shifts. Fierce global competition, explosive growth in personal computing, and the relentless rise of automation technologies forced companies to ask: Is the way we've always done things still the best way? That's where Business Process Reengineering (BPR) stepped in, promising radical gains by reimagining—not just automating—core business processes from the ground up.

The business world is abuzz with the promise—and controversy—surrounding Business Process Reengineering (BPR). As enterprises race to stay competitive in the 1990s, BPR has emerged as a bold approach to streamlining operations, slashing costs, and leveraging new technologies. What’s behind this wave of radical corporate transformation? And why are companies from Ford to Taco Bell embracing BPR?