Towards a Unified Perspective of Business Process Reengineering Methodologies

Business Process Reengineering (BPR) has been introduced as an effective solution for improving radically the performance of organizations. It is recommended to consider a methodology in the BPR effort because of its risky and complicated nature. Although, many researches present various methodologies, a comprehensive methodology has not been introduced. This research investigates almost 40 academic papers which focus on addressing a solution for BPR implementation. Then, the various stages of the BPR project and the important factors are extracted. To form a comprehensive BPR methodology, factors are aggregated in six structural elements. The results propose a unified perspective and structure for BPR methodologies and hence increase the comprehensiveness and effectiveness. For more reliability, 23 solutions are investigated to explore their emphasis on each element