Editing Business process modeling (section)

=== Business process re-engineering ===
[[File:Business Process Reengineering Cycle.svg|thumb|Diagram of the business process reengineering cycle]]

[[Business process reengineering]] (BPR) aims to improve the [[Business efficiency|efficiency]] and effectiveness of the processes that exist within and across organizations. It examines business processes from a "clean slate" perspective to determine how best to construct them.

Business process re-engineering (BPR) began as a private sector technique to help organizations fundamentally rethink how they do their work. A key stimulus for re-engineering has been the development and deployment of sophisticated information systems and networks. Leading organizations use this technology to support innovative business processes, rather than refining current ways of doing work.<ref name="GAO97">[https://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/gao/bprag.pdf Business Process Reengineering Assessment Guide] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218131136/http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/bprag/bprag.pdf |date=2017-02-18}}, United States General Accounting Office, May 1997.</ref>