Q. Illustrate Steps in Business Reengineering?

Reengineering experts have summarized five major steps for reengineering business processes.

1. Develop the business vision as well as process objectives- senior management requires to develop a broad strategic vision which calls for redesigned business process.

2. Identify the process to be redesigned -Companies must identify a few core business processes to be redesigned focusing on those with the greatest potential paybacks. Symptoms of incompetent process include excessive data redundancy and re-entering information too much time spend handling exceptions and special cases.

3. Understand as well as Measure the performance of existing process- If the goal of process redesign is to reduce time & cost in develop in a new product or filling a order within the time which is available by the customer to fulfil the order to the organization for the goods and services.

4. Identify the opportunities applying information technology- In this we recognize the various types of opportunities subsequent to the detail study of the different alternatives for the solution of the problem.

5. Build a prototype of the new process- Prior to implementation of any type of new system we test the system a test unit. Therefore for this purpose we develop the prototype for the testing of the system.