{"title":"A Case for Re-engineering the European Union","authors":"Peter Kangis","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<25::AID-BCR74>3.0.CO;2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<25::AID-BCR74>3.0.CO;2-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Re-engineering applied to business or commercial processes has yielded interesting results. In this paper an attempt is made to transfer the knowledge and experience thus acquired to complex, unclear and controversial organizations like the Europe an Union. The opportunity is taken of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference to test the feasibility of putting forward a restructuring of the EU so that the inputs, processes and functions it undertakes are geared to predefined objectives and outputs. The first part of this article reviews the position of Europe as an entity; the latter part attempts to show one possible approach to re-engineering it. Subject to certain provisos of a political nature and after an attempt to analyze what is possible, it is concluded that the EU is a suitable case for re-engineering and there is no reason why it should not benefit from it. Based on this analysis, it is also suggested that the re-engineering approach may be transferable to other extensive or complex organiza tions.</p>","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72004551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Virtual Business: Creating the Effective Business Organization","authors":"A. Campbell","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<45::AID-BCR75>3.0.CO;2-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<45::AID-BCR75>3.0.CO;2-0","url":null,"abstract":"This paper attempts to define what is meant by the term virtual business, and suggests that what are currently held to be examples of virtual business activity do not in fact constitute a new business model. Many of the practices considered components of the virtual business organization, are in fact currently performed by many business organization and will shortly be accepted as standard commercial practice for successful companies. The paper will suggest the level of transformation that a conventional business organization will need to undertake to adopt the working practices of the virtual business organization. The paper concludes by emphasizing that the success of the virtual business will not be solely through defining the correct or ganizational structures or technology platforms. The successful virtual business will only come through creating and maintaining an appropriate culture that motivates workers, customers and commercial partners to be a part of the enterprise.","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86457879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Case for Re‐engineering the European Union","authors":"P. Kangis","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<25::AID-BCR74>3.0.CO;2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<25::AID-BCR74>3.0.CO;2-9","url":null,"abstract":"Re-engineering applied to business or commercial processes has yielded interesting results. In this paper an attempt is made to transfer the knowledge and experience thus acquired to complex, unclear and controversial organizations like the Europe an Union. The opportunity is taken of the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference to test the feasibility of putting forward a restructuring of the EU so that the inputs, processes and functions it undertakes are geared to predefined objectives and outputs. The first part of this article reviews the position of Europe as an entity; the latter part attempts to show one possible approach to re-engineering it. Subject to certain provisos of a political nature and after an attempt to analyze what is possible, it is concluded that the EU is a suitable case for re-engineering and there is no reason why it should not benefit from it. Based on this analysis, it is also suggested that the re-engineering approach may be transferable to other extensive or complex organiza tions.","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84710616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mike Tucker, Chairman of the Institute of BPR","authors":"J. Watts","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<2::AID-BCR73>3.0.CO;2-N","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<2::AID-BCR73>3.0.CO;2-N","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88403035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mike Tucker, Chairman of the Institute of BPR","authors":"Julian Watts","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<2::AID-BCR73>3.0.CO;2-N","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<2::AID-BCR73>3.0.CO;2-N","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71991807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Process Re-engineering in Scotland: Survey and Comparison","authors":"S. Sockalingam, A. Doswell","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<33::AID-BCR76>3.0.CO;2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<33::AID-BCR76>3.0.CO;2-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reports on empirical investigation into the practice of business process re-engineering (BPR) in Scotland and compares this practice with that reported from other surveys of Western nations. If the world, especially the information worl d is globalizing, national differences might be expected to be disappearing. However the results suggest that organizations in Scotland, although on a par with the rest of UK, are lagging behind Continental Europe and the US considerably. Analysis was als o carried out by sector which confirmed previous findings of sectorial bias, and by rank, which corroborated a bias in terms of organization size. The conclusions are that companies which report doing BPR are generally satisfied with their success. BPR is a relatively new phenomenon in Scotland. Nevertheless, the patterns of emerging practice characterize those of more mature re-engineering nations.</p>","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72004549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Process Re‐engineering in Scotland: Survey and Comparison","authors":"S. Sockalingam, A. Doswell","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<33::AID-BCR76>3.0.CO;2-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<33::AID-BCR76>3.0.CO;2-2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports on empirical investigation into the practice of business process re-engineering (BPR) in Scotland and compares this practice with that reported from other surveys of Western nations. If the world, especially the information worl d is globalizing, national differences might be expected to be disappearing. However the results suggest that organizations in Scotland, although on a par with the rest of UK, are lagging behind Continental Europe and the US considerably. Analysis was als o carried out by sector which confirmed previous findings of sectorial bias, and by rank, which corroborated a bias in terms of organization size. The conclusions are that companies which report doing BPR are generally satisfied with their success. BPR is a relatively new phenomenon in Scotland. Nevertheless, the patterns of emerging practice characterize those of more mature re-engineering nations.","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89551579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Business Process Re-Engineering using Groupware: A Case Study","authors":"Pritam Chita","doi":"10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<5::AID-BCR77>3.0.CO;2-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0828(199612)3:4<5::AID-BCR77>3.0.CO;2-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100208,"journal":{"name":"Business Change and Re-engineering","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1996-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77676470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}