Research On Practicing Enterprise's Business Process Reengineering With Workflow

Since the industrial revolution in 19th century, the management methods of enterprises, which emphasize labor division and specialization, have been following the labor division theory of Adam Smith and the scientific management principle of Taylor. And it has formed a kind of organization hiberarchy which is like a pyramid. In the period of supply falling short of demand, this method has met the need of the development of economic growth and obtained huge success. However, with the beginning of the second technical revolution and the arrival of information age, the fundamental change has taken place in the external environment condition of enterprises. The enterprise is being in the new pattern and environment which takes the customer, competition and change (3C) as the main characteristic. The market shifts to the buyer market by the seller market, the speed of technical renewal speeds up, and the life cycle of product reduces and so on. All these cause traditional management pattern to be far from meeting the need of era to develop. In order to survive and develop, the enterprise must make the thorough comprehensive transformation to oneself. Under such background, American Michael Hammer and James Champy put forward the theory of business process reengineering(BPR), drawing back the prologue of the BPR of enterprise.The so-called BPR is to fundamentally reconsider and redesign the core process of the business processing of the enterprise. It makes many essential performance of the enterprise, such as the cost, quantity, service and speed, obtain the enormous improvement simultaneously, and satisfies the demands of nowadays customer to the quality, speed and service. The Business Process is a group of mutually correlative activities which create the value for the customer. All the reengineering work completely centers on it to launch, realizes the movement mechanism of enterprise which takes flow as the core and crosses function, and combines numerous staffs, various tasks and different sections together organically to achieve the goal in a higher level to optimize and obtain the overall predominance.The appearance and the development of workflow technique satisfied the requirement of the BPR and the advanced strategic to be implemented, remarkably enhanced the efficiency of the flow management and impelled the development of the process reengineering. The workflow technology is the core technology to...