Modelling client business processes as an aid to strategic briefing

Construction Management and Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-76

  Green, Stuart D ^a   Simister, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Briefing; Business process re engineering; Clients; Social constructivism; Soft systems methodology

Indexed keywords

REENGINEERING;

BRIEFING; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; CLIENTS; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIVISM; SOFT SYSTEMS METHODOLOGY;

PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS;

EID: 0040838252     PISSN: 01446193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014461999371835     Document Type: Article

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