Architecting cross-functional business processes: new views on traditional business process reengineering

International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 345-358

  Sommer, Rainer A ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

business process reengineering (BPR); competitive advantage (CA); cross functional processes; enterprise resource planning (ERP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249313561     PISSN: 14684330     EISSN: 17418127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMED.2004.004638     Document Type: Article

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