Article #1
A Standard Methodology for IT-Enabled Enterprise Business Process Reengineering

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) has been a management concept since the late
1980s. Recently, emerging key technologies like Internet and Web-centric technologies have
radically transformed the way in which businesses are carried out. Many Dot.com start-up
companies have been hurriedly set up, and many failures have been reported. As predicted
by a Gartner report, seven in ten Dot.com companies would fail due to the lack of strategic
directions and proper business process alignment. A shake-up of these companies actually
occurred at the beginning of 2001. This confirms the need for the alignment of an
enterprise's organization, business processes and IT systems to achieve the business goals
and strategies through Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) efforts.

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Article #2
eQUIP: An electronically-driven Quick Implementation Methodology for deploying
TrueOrders solutions

Enterprise systems are highly complex as their functionalities cut across multiple disciplines.
In an integrated system there is a need to consider the relationships between different
modules in terms of the overlapping functions, workflow and information inter-dependencies.
Hence, deploying enterprise system can be extremely challenging as it involves many parties.
Many failures in deploying complex systems have been reported. In order to overcome such
difficulties, a rapid system deployment methodology, eQUIP has been developed by BLC
Solutions Pte Ltd to provide system consultants and implementers with the necessary
expertise and know-how.

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Article #3
An Enterprise-wide Process Centric Framework for Manufacturing Information
Technologies

Industries have moved from contract manufacturing to providing higher value-added
knowledge-based services like product design & development. As a result, capabilities for
Enterprise-wise Collaboration, Product Lifecycle Management, Process Workflow
Management, and Manufacturing Planning & Scheduling have become critical especially
among the Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs). This paper describes an R & D
project at SIMTech that developed an Enterprise-wide Process-Centric Information
Technology (EPC-IT) framework to address such industry needs, and how it helped
companies to plan, manage and control their business operations efficiently.

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