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In this period when economy is booming, organizations experience upsurge in profits every quarter, but along with that arise many questions, which remain unanswered. Those puzzling questions, which ring around almost all the top heads of the country, include - How to make it more sustainable? How to be globally competitive? What I should do to be the market leader? The list goes on...

Is it that difficult to answer these questions or is there any ‘one-stop’ solution available around?

In this period of economic advancement, there is a shift in the business paradigm. The new school of thought proposes a shift from production to productivity, efficiency to effectiveness, tactical to strategic approach to decision-making and automation to optimization. The ingredients for strategic enterprise management do not end here. Competency management, which hinges around knowledge, skill, and most importantly, attitude, is also a key area. A radical rethinking on the way the business is run would bring the best out of the organization.

To stick around in the business, everybody, in a way or other, has been looking up to BPR, and very recently, ERP. The relationship between the two is inevitable. The name given to the exercise differs in many cases but the bottom-line of the exercise remains the same. For the service providers, and more importantly, for the users, it is now imperative that in any re-engineering exercise or implementation, the emphasis moves from the functionality and speed, to achieving significant business benefits that are recognized by organizations. The need of the hour seems to be the fundamental re-structuring & transformation of enterprise, which in turn cascades across enterprises to create the extended enterprise and re-casting of the relationships between suppliers, customers and competitors.

BPR improves all aspects of the business process, right from planning to execution. By taking business re-engineering initiative, managers can establish standards, process and information system through which they can control the entire business much more effectively than before.

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* Contributed by -
Santhakumar S.,
PGP1 Student,
BIM, Trichy,
Published in KRIYA, February 2006 Issue, the monthly magazine of the institute..