Business Process Reengineering / BPR
Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30
CORE DEFINITION
A fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
Start from scratch. Don't patch a rotten foundation. Sometimes optimization (Kaizen) is not enough; you must restructure. Ask yourself: If we were starting from zero today, would this process still look like this? If not, blow it up.
Anchor fast decisions
BPR advocates for a 'fundamental' and 'radical' redesign of processes, rather than incremental improvement. By eliminating non-value-adding steps, merging steps, and leveraging IT for parallel processing and automation, it achieves order-of-magnitude improvements in cost, quality, and speed. The underlying assumption is that the process structure itself determines the performance ceiling, and patching cannot break through it.
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