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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
  2. What is Business Reengineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The Established and the Reengineered

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 3-11
    3. Business Reengineering is Not New

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 12-16
    4. The Purpose of Reengineering

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 17-21
    5. Steps in the Reengineering Effort

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 22-29
    6. Making the Most of Human Resources

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 30-36
    7. The Nature of a Process

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 37-41
  3. What is Software Engineering

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
    2. Classification of Software

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 59-64
    3. Software Quality Attributes

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 73-82
    4. The Software Development Process

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 83-93
    5. Software Cost and Risk Estimation

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 94-99
  4. Business Analysis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
    2. Analysis of Business Activities

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 103-110
    3. Individual Interviews

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 111-114
    4. Group Sessions

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 115-121
    5. Business Process Prototyping

      • Alfs Berztiss
      Pages 122-125

About this book

It is said that business re-engineering is part of our transition to a post-industrial society. The purpose of this book is to present an approach to how to reorganize businesses using the discipline of software engineering as a guiding paradigm. The author's thesis is that software engineering provides the necessary analytical expertise for defining business processes and the tools to transform process descriptions to support systems.
The author begins by introducing the concepts and needs for business reengineering and principles and practice of software engineering. He then shows how by concentrating on processes, a business can define the information base required and how it is to be constructed. As a result, any manager or technically-minded person will learn how to implement the reengineering of a business.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

    Alfs Berztiss

  • Institute of DSV, Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Alfs Berztiss

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software Methods for Business Reengineering

  • Authors: Alfs Berztiss

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3980-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1996

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-94553-8Published: 08 December 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8458-1Published: 05 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-3980-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 275

  • Number of Illustrations: 150 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: IT in Business, Operations Research/Decision Theory

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