BPR success or failure? A business process reengineering project in the financial services industry

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 367-382

  Larsen, Melissa A ^a   Myers, Michael D ^b  

^a KPMG   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Business process reengineering; Case study; Financial sector; Interpretivist perspective

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

BUSINESS PROCESS IMPROVEMENT; BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; CASE-STUDIES; FAILURE RATE; FINANCIAL SECTORS; FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRIES; INTERPRETIVIST; NEW ZEALAND;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 85016070946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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