Best practices in business process redesign: Use and impact

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 193-213

  Mansar, S Limam ^a   Reijers, H A ^b  

^a ZAYED UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Best practice; Optimization techniques; Process management; Surveys

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147171949     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150710740455     Document Type: Article

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