Nature of BPR Team

The project director must assemble a team of people who can expand the group¹s awareness, involve people from all parts of the organization, and bring to bear the many skills needed to reengineer a business successfully. It is a group of people who have developed a successful way of

   - communicating,

   - solving problems, and

   - working together.

All effective BPR teams must possess three core competencies:

   - Ability to learn: learning how to function as a team and execute a BPR methodology.

   - Political survey: Centres of power and authority can be wiped out or moved causing some pain.

   - Committed Persistence: To maintain a committed persistence throughout the life of the project.

IS groups have a unique opportunity to be "catalysts" not "drivers" for BPR projects.

Team Structures

The team¹s structure must be flexible enough to accommodate required changes in membership and size throughout the life of the project.

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The BPR team consists of

   - executive sponsors,

   - project director (an employee not a consultant),

   - core project co-ordinator and support group* (3-7 full-time people),

   - business unit champions (3-20 people),

   - advisory experts (0-10 people),

   - Implementation SWAT groups.

*: project operations management / project facilitation / business practice / IS/IT / finance / knowledge co-ordination.

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