Technology Enabled Re-Engineering (TERE)

Re-engineering a company's business processes is always a complex and difficult task.

Many consultants advocate the need to re-engineer business processes before selecting and implementing appropriate technology to support these new processes.

Technology Enabled Re-Engineering adopts a counter viewpoint. TERE uses new technology as the catalyst to enable the re-engineering of the business by taking advantage of the business processes inherent in most business application solutions.

Using the TERE approach requires a company to identify the business objectives of implementing new technology as a first step in the process. Then the company selects the best technology to realize these objectives and uses the process of implementing the technology to re-engineer the company around the processes inherent in the technology.

This is typically a much faster and more economical method of re-engineering a business. The quality of the result is very dependent upon the quality of the business processes deigned into the chosen software solution. As a result, this becomes a primary factor in selecting a vendor.

Benefits:

• Lower cost than traditional process re-engineering

• Faster implementation, delivering desired results quicker

• Potential for much higher return on investment

• Less dependent upon a consultant's ability to understand and redefine your business processes

• Less dependent upon outside consultants

Risks:

• Dependant upon strong processes in chosen technology.

• Typically requires more organizational change.

• May not produce the most optimum process changes.

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