Business process reengineering (BPR) in contemporary organizations: Concept, success factors and challenges

This paper provides a comprehensive view of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) in contemporary organizations: concept, success factors, and the challenges that can make BPR implementation in the business world to be a failure. It is basically an exploratory analysis and thus reviews the literature relating to the concept of BPR, the success factors and the challenges to the BPR implementation efforts. Finally, it explains that these factors and challenges can act as checklist by which organizations undertaking or planning to undertake BPR efforts can ensure that their BPR-related change efforts are comprehensive, well-implemented and have the minimum chance of failure.