business processes

Business process approaches change overtime. Before the 1990s gradual process improvement approaches were common. Hammer and Champy introduced BPR in the early 1990’s, promoting radical changes instead of gradual. Since 2000 BPM has become more popular through the combination of BPR and different forms of process automation. The tools for analyzing and improving changes have remained essentially the same. Yet, the change management of BPR and BPM is different from the earlier gradual improvement.

BPR: an overview
A concise overview article.

Proces analysis
What is a process and how to analyze it.

A study of BPR
An article based on the book by Hammer and Champy

BPR: a consolidated methodology
An elaborate description of the methodology.

BPI at MIT
A simple and practical toolkit also for BPR and BPM, all you need really.

Business process management
On the relation between BPM and other process improvement methods

BPM is SOA’s killer application
developments on the interface between business process and IT.

Powerpoint: BPM
A nice presentation on BPM and its future.

Powerpoint: BPR/BPM by CSC
A sheet presentation of a consultant on the technical approach by CSC. Typically, change management is absent.

Winning at change
An excellent article on change management, often the cause of failure of BPR and BPM.

Further links

BPR online learning center
An excellent site with BPR tools and materials.

On BPR and BPM

The workflow management coalition

The site on BPM