Business Process Management Journal: Volume 4 Issue 4

Process analysis techniques and tools for business improvements

Yen Cheung, Jay Bal

Business process reengineering (BPR) and total quality management (TQM) both emphasise the benefits that a process orientated view of company operations can bring. Acquiring a…

From BPR to CPR ‐ conceptualising re‐engineering in construction

P.E.D. Love, H. Li

As construction is a project‐orientated industry, it is suggested in this paper that traditional business process re‐engineering (BPR) will only improve intra‐organisational…

A comparison of capital budgeting models: local versus global viewpoints

Lloyd J. Taylor

This research studies the financial aspects of capital budgeting models in both the local and global perspectives. Since the development of the simple payback method, capital…

Transforming IT/IS infrastructure and IS personnel issues

Mahmoud M. Watad, Frank J. DiSanzo

This paper examines the organizational issues that arise when an organization transforms its IT infrastructure. The unanticipated changes in the IT infrastructure forced IS…

Just‐in‐time manufacturing

Christine A. Swanson, William M. Lankford

JIT manufacturing is a philosophy by which an organization seeks continually to improve its products and processes by eliminating waste. Organizations wanting to use the JIT…