August-Wilhelm Scheer, ARIS architecture and reference models for business process management (2000), p. 379.
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Business process engineering aims to achieve the greatest efficiency possible in terms of business-organizational solutions. Organizational departments, reengineering project teams or even business process owners can be responsible for process engineering. While work schedule development for manufacturing processes might be institutionally allocated to a certain department for years as job preparation, other kinds of business processes are not quite as regimented.

— August-Wilhelm Scheer on Business process reengineering

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August-Wilhelm Scheer

About August-Wilhelm Scheer

August-Wilhelm Scheer (born July 27, 1941) is a German Professor of business administration and business information at the Saarland University, and founder and director of IDS Scheer AG, a major IT service and software company.