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Advantages and disadvantages of Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

Advantages and disadvantages of Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

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Faith
Advantages
1) BPR revolves around customer need and helps to give appropriate focus to the business.
2) Provides cost advantages that assists the organizations competitive position.
3) Encourages a long-term strategic view of operational processes by asking radical questions about how things are done and how they could be improved.
4) It focuses on the entire processes and therefore the exercise can streamline activities throughout the organization.
5) It can help eliminate unnecessary activities therefore help reduce organizational complexities.

Disadvantages
1. It requires far-reaching and long term commitment by management and staff. Securing this is not an easy task.
2. Sometimes it is incorrectly seen as a single once for all cost cutting exercise. Primarily the aim is not cost cutting and it should be an ongoing process. This view could create hostility as employees see it as a threat to security.
3. Sometimes it is also seen as a tool to make small changes yet in the real sense it should be used to make radical changes.
Titany answered the question on October 26, 2021 at 12:13

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