Is BPR Useful for Small Companies (SMEs)?

Is BPR Applicablle to SMEs? YES
Raj Mohan, Management Consultant, India, Member

Very much so. In many occasions they need a breakthrough improvement to escape from critical problems.

Is BPR Applicable to SMEs? Yes
Mathijs van der Linden, Student (University), Netherlands, Member

According to Chung & Powell (2005), it is beneficial for SME to apply BPR. Although BPR is mostly done by SMEs who have a strong position.
I would recommend reading: 'Process Re-engineering Success in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises' by Chang & Powell.

WHEN BPR is Applicable to SMEs:
asif, Analyst, Pakistan, Member

When you are facing following problems in your organization then you can consider a BPR exercise (both in small and large organizations)
- Cross-functional, cross-departmental, cross-hierarchical problems
- Too many non-value-adding steps (e.g. check, monitor, control, authorize, reconcile, transfer),
- Complex procedures with many exceptions & special cases
- To fight increasing competition, to get products/services to market faster
- Rework, iteration & duplication of work
- Miscommunications occur frequently and important information was not passed to the relevant parties to follow up.
- It takes a long time to know the progress of the work when the customers ask.
- Don't know for sure the cost and profitability of works done.
- Not sure of who is responsible for what task.

Can BPR Be Used in Small and Middle Size Companies as Well?
PK Lim CMC, PMC, Management Consultant, Singapore, Member

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Is BPR Useful for Small and Medium Organizations?
murali, Manager, India, Member

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Is BPR Applicable to SMEs? YES
Steve Met, United Kingdom, Member

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BPR is a Possible for ALL Organizations
YAW ANTWI-ADJEI, ICT Consultant, Ghana, Member

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