The New Branch Columbus project at Royal Bank of Scotland: The implementation of large-scale business process re-engineering

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 213-236

  Currie, Wendy L ^a   Willcocks, Leslie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers to BPR; Business process re engineering; Managing change; Organizational politics; Project management

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042373444     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0963-8687(96)80004-7     Document Type: Article

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