15/04/2023
Organization’s Internal Strengths & Weaknesses and External Threats & Opportunities
Part – 10
(“Commonly Overlooked Aspects” – Deep-rooted Unidentified Areas and their Vulnerable Impact)
TQM has advocated Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) and incremental improvement of processes (Kaizen) whereas Business Process Reengineering (BPRE) is about radical discontinuous change (breakthrough improvement) through process innovation.
First, the process is improved until its functional lifetime comes to an end, at which point it is re-engineered. Then development is carried on, and the entire sequence repeats over again. It is not a once-in-a-lifetime venture. As business circumstances vary in major ways, so must process design.
A Comparison between BPRE and TQM
• (A) Both BPRE and TQM mostly focus on customers. Achievement of BPRE and TQM is reflected in the satisfactory reaction to the shifting needs of clientele in a competitive business environment. Although BPRE does not clearly highlight the perception of internal customers similar to TQM, its success very much depends on the satisfaction of internal patrons.
• (B) Both BPRE and TQM are process-oriented models relating to cross-functional actions. Although TQM may or may not engage in breakthrough improvements, BPRE constantly attempts to accomplish key or striking improvements in the existing business processes. For process development, TQM and TQC tools such as Cause-and-Effect Diagrams, Control Charts, Pareto Analysis, etc., to recognize the root causes of troubles and to remove them. BPRE endeavors at radical changes to develop processes that are obviously dissimilar from the existing processes.
• (C) Both BPRE and TQM emphasize cultural transformation in the organization and behavioral modification in employees by introducing client focus and process orientation in the psyches of human resources. Employees are motivated to perform not just as a professional entity of an organization but rather as a part of the entire process of organizational activities.
• (D) Both BPRE and TQM necessitate top management support. The CEO of the organization has to play the role of a leader for the effective implementation of BPRE and TQM. Since both BPRE and TQM are supporting processes to accomplish business targets, the top management must capture initiative in these processes, rather than delegating the responsibility to the next level of management.
• (E) Both BPRE and TQM are not “one-time” experiments. Both should be put into practice, continuously.
• (F) Every human resource from top-level management to the lowest rank of the workforce of every department is directly or indirectly concerned with BPRE and TQM.
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From:
Jayanta Baksi
P.G.D.B.A.; M.B.A. (H.R.)
Strategic Business Intelligence Analyst
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