A. Dennis, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
R. Daniels, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
G. Hayes, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
G. Kelly, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
D. Lange, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
L. Massman, Dept. of Manage., Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA
This paper presents a groupware-supported approach business process re-engineering. Effective re-engineering must balance data gathering, study, creativity exercises, problem solving, resource allocation, and design, so there is a need for a variety of tools and techniques to be productive. Our experiences in a series of three case studies show the use of groupware saved money in the re-engineering project itself and the resulting re-engineered processes continue to save money over the years. Groupware enabled widespread participation in a very rapid redesign process, enabling senior and middle managers to redesign their own cross-functional and cross-business unit processes, leading a greater acceptance of the changes. The methods and tools have been successfully transferred to these organizations, who continue to use them with little assistance of external consultants.
Index Terms:
groupware; systems re-engineering; business data processing; groupware; business process re-engineering; process re-engineering
Citation:
A. Dennis, R. Daniels, G. Hayes, G. Kelly, D. Lange, L. Massman, "Business process re-engineering with groupware," hicss, pp.378, 28th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 1995