Selecting the best strategic practices for business process redesign

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 609-627

  Hanafizadeh, Payam ^a   Moosakhani, Morteza ^b   Bakhshi, Javad ^b  

^a ALLAMEH TABATABA'I UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Business process re engineering; Corporate strategy; Redesign

Indexed keywords

EID: 67749143626     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150910975561     Document Type: Article

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