Purpose – This paper presents issues associated with the needs of collaborative supply chain management (CSCM) and proposes a planning stage of a CSCM framework. Design/methodology/approach – The proposed planning stage of a CSCM framework incorporates issues of organisation profile,...

Purpose – The intention of this paper is to promote the model of knowledge‐based collaborative supply chain management (KBCSCM) system as an alternative strategy for organisations to resolve the problems in their current supply chain management (SCM) in the era of collaborative commerce...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the critical success factors of business process reengineering (BPR) in higher education (HE). Design/methodology/approach – Empirical case studies collected from three private higher education institutions in Malaysia, which have embarked on...

Discusses the concept of business process management as an approach which relies on cross‐functional contributions to organizational performance. Presents arguments on the importance of “hard” and “soft” elements which are all required for determining effective competitiveness. A...

This paper provides a holistic view of the Business Process Re‐engineering (BPR) implementation process. It reviews the literature relating to the hard and soft factors that cause success and failure for BPR implementation, classifies these factors into subgroups, and identifies key factors of...

This paper presents a holistic review of the literature related to business process re‐engineering (BPR). It reviews some definitions of BPR and clarifies confusion around its concepts, traces the evolution of BPR and identifies its main drivers, and discusses issues of integrating BPR with...

Despite the widespread adoption of business process re‐engineering (BPR), it has in many cases repeatedly failed to deliver its promised results. The lack of integrated implementation approach to exploiting BPR is seen as one of the important reasons amongst others, behind BPR failures. Yet, a...