[Image]IE 582 Business Process Reengineering

1998-99

Dr.Erol Sayin

sayin@ie.metu.edu.tr

Office: IE-335, Tel: 210 22 88

A N N O U N C E M E N T S

Catalog Data: Business Process Reengineering (3-0) 3

The course concentrates on engineering of organizational processes and systems.

The focus is on fundamental redesign of strategic and value-adding business processes.

Organizations are modeled as systems in order to gain insight into their structure, processes

and performance. This knowledge is used in engineering more effective organizations and

information sytems to provide value- added support for organizational evolution .

Textbook: Dorine C.Andrews and Susan K.Stalick, Business Reengineering,

Yourdon Press Computing Series (Prentice-Hall), 1994, ISBN: 0-13-014853-9,

Englewood Cliffs, NJ

References:

Books:

    1) R. L.Manganelli & M. M.Klein, The Reengineering Handbook,

                by the American Management Association, 1994;

    2) M.Hammer & J.Champy: Reengineering the Corporation, by Harper, 1993;

    3) Hammer & S.Stanton: The Reengineering Revolution, by Harper, 1995;

    4) J.Champy, Reengineering Management, by Harper, 1995.

Journals:

 Business Change and Reengineering (Wiley);

 Journal of Strategic Change (Wiley)

Objectives: The end result of reengineering initiatives is the creation of a sense and respond

strategy implemented through a viable new organization structure referred as the information

technology enabled network. Essential to the viability of the IT-enabled network is a set of

partially new management principles. The objective of this course to provide students with a

reengineering roadmap to turn visions into an implementable plan.

Excerpts from the Textbook:

1. Know Where You Are

2. Lighting the Way

3. Know Where Are You Going

4. Don't Walk Alone

5. Prepare for the Journey

6. Move with Purpose

7. The Road is Not Smooth, Watch for Danger

9. Characteristics of the Successful Journey

Reinventing the Government

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