WASHINGTON -- The Army itself can be thought of as a large enterprise whose mission is fighting and winning America's wars. But within that enterprise are many sub-enterprises supporting that mission, ...

Davenport, Thomas H., and Richard L. Nolan. "Overview and Syllabus for a Course on Business Process Reengineering." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-058, November 1995.

This is a one (1) unit course. Today's business processes are often complex and multi-disciplinary in nature. Most business processes are often sub-optimized for the purposes of meeting the needs of ...

The Army is one of the most successful organizations in the world at balancing costs, schedules and quality. No one would disagree that its mission is absolutely critical, effecting human life in a ...

As digital transformation redefines business landscapes, cloud adoption has become integral to this shift. But this critical move can be challenging, so it necessitates a robust approach to help ...

The Business Process Reengineering (BPR) team convened its newly formed advisory committee on Jan. 26, bringing together faculty and staff leaders for an overview and discussion of the BPR projects.

I mapped my first business process diagram over 35 years ago when I joined Accenture. I used a hierarchical diagram format called IDEF0 to describe an ERP system we were implementing at a U.K. defense ...

In the early 1980s, technology silos, those free-standing islands of innovation in divisions such as marketing, finance and human resources, were the pride of individual functional units. But as the ...

The idea of re-engineering was first propounded in an article in Harvard Business Review in July–August 1990 by Michael Hammer (see article), then a professor of computer science at MIT. The method ...