Role of IT in Business Process Reengineering

Abstract

Business Process Reengineering is a discipline in which extensive research has been done and numbers of methodologies are introduced. But what seems to be lacking in these methodologies is a structured approach. In this paper an attempt has been made to study and understand the meaning of Business Process Reengineering and the role of information technology in BPR, different reasons of its failure and few recommendations are proposed for the smooth working of BPR in any large organizations.