Business process engineering

the long version

The purpose of Business Process Engineering: Advancing the State of the Art is to outline the structure of Business Process Engineering (BPE), its practices, methods, and theory for implementing successful organization restructuring. BPE is the design and implementation of efficient and effective business processes, and the corresponding alignment of enabling information technologies and systems. The editors have assembled the best research on BPE and created a structured volume that provides academic researchers and practitioners a theoretical and practical framework for implementing specific BPE solutions for business and government. Hence, the book covers theoretical efforts on the creation of new methods in BPE and practical issues that relate to its actual implementation in the real world of business and government.