BPR Initiative in Bangladesh

 

Business Process Reengineering Approach: From  Literature Review

Dr. Engr. Md. Abdur Rashid

Director (Admin & Finance)

NAPD

www.rashid-bd.info

Introduction

BPR is a very popular management tool for any organisation of its global competitiveness. The factor is how an organisation become more effective and efficient? Efficiency can be ensured at each stage of the business process. The business process has to abandon some unnecessary steps (Oke Oktavianty and Dwi Hadi Sulistyarini 2018) and resources. Take effective steps to enhance the benefit and sustain the future with global competition. BPR ensures the evaluation and gets re-design and re-construct and adds value. More benefits can be obtained from the BPR using the adoption of ICT. ICT is the number one variable to turn into dramatic improvement. But remember that ICT is the only unique addition to the process. small improvements are basic of these models. Like the reform model, the Business Process Reengineering (BPR) model (Millan, 2015) may have played a role in this deal because it emphasizes using technology to make a big change.

Similar models

There are other similar tools to improve the organization. Japan, in this respect, took more advantage from earlier. Different motor companies in Japan took advantage of these models, and cheaper motors were produced and supplied in the global market. Models are Kaizen and TQM. BPR is also like those models. But the difference is that BPR is more influential for dramatic improvement.

Bangladesh Perspective

Tremendous progress in digital transformation has been achieved in Bangladesh. Good governance features are going to be settled by the application of e-Governance. e-governance is the application of information and communication technology (ICT) tools by which citizens can get all e-services very promptly to confirm citizens' rights.

 The purchase of computers,  hardware, and software at different offices is in full swing. But it is not the only solution to digital transformation. It is one kind of translation, not transformation. For real transformation, there needs to be Business Process Reengineering (BPR) at every organization first.

 BPR is essential for improving efficiency, time, space and money. Service delivery and organizational efficiency can be improve by applying  BPR. In this respect,  there is the problem that the BPR concept is something new to us. We are not oriented with this concept of BPR though the concept of BPR was introduced by Hammer and Champy in 1993. Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is a useful tool that has been adopted by and hailed as one of the current major drivers of change within many organizations. Although many organizations have achieved dramatic success through the implementation of BPR, in other situations this has not always been the case. By definition, BPR is the “Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvement in critical, contemporary performance measures, such as cost, quality, service and speed. Also, there is a close relationship between the three terminologies like BPR, Innovation, and Change Management. Details discussion is not available here to shorten the article.

 As an enabler ICT tools can be integrated with BPR to be a success in an organization. So our strategy should be re-fixed, and the national ICT policy can be updated considering this factor. The policy should be such that we should set up a model for BPR and e-Governance consistently. Without BPR, the e-Governance program will not be a success.

 In this regard, Government can take the initiative for capacity building on the BPR concept and e-Governance through different national training institutes. Research activities can be taken by research organizations on the BPR to bring change in the organization to get a competitive advantage.    

 In short, the BPR application can be achieved by fixing the goals first. secondly, process the third policy and fourth technology (hardware, software, network). 

 The writers can be available through the mail: rashid.eee.cse@gmail.com