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Guha, S., Grover, V., Kettinger, W. J., and Teng, J. T. C. 1997. "Exploring an Antecedent
Model of Business Process Change and Organizational Performance," Journal of Management Information Systems(14:1), pp. 119-154.
Many organizations have undertaken major business process change (BPC) initiatives
over the past ten years. Earlier thinking on this topic indicated a significant role
for information technology in these initiatives, while more recently the importance
of change management has been emphasized. This paper examines a model that proposes
various antecedents to successful BPC. Three case studies with varying degrees of
BPC project success are described in the context of this model, with the specific
goal of determining facilitators and inhibitors to the success of these change efforts.
The results indicate that the successful project tended to have facilitators in all
dimensions of the framework, including the change environment, process management,
and change management. The least successful project exhibited inhibitors primarily
in the area of cultural readiness and change management.
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