Project process reengineering (PPR): A BPR method for projects

International Journal of Information Systems and Change Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 299-313

  Zarei, Behrouz ^a   Merati, Ehsan ^a   Ghapanchi, Amirhossein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

BPR; Business process reengineering; Change management; Changes; Information system; PPR; Project management; Project process reengineering

Indexed keywords

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; BUSINESS-ORIENTED; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; CHANGES; PROJECT DIMENSIONS; PROJECT PROCESS; RE-ENGINEERING PROJECTS;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 78651544665     PISSN: 14793121     EISSN: 1479313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISCM.2010.036914     Document Type: Article

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