Accounting Information System: Report on BPR, Clean Slate, Semester 1

This report delves into the application of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and the Clean Slate approach within an accounting information system context. It begins by defining the Clean Slate concept, emphasizing its role in initiating processes from scratch, and then contrasts it with BPR, highlighting the latter's focus on redesigning organizational structures to improve performance, reduce costs, and enhance quality. The report critiques BPR, pointing out potential limitations such as assumptions about process ineffectiveness and the lack of flexibility in implementation. It suggests alternatives like Total Quality Management (TQM) as a more adaptable approach, emphasizing continuous improvement over radical overhauls. The report concludes by referencing academic sources to support the analysis and provide a basis for further exploration of accounting information systems.

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Answer to Question 2.5.
C. The term ‘clean slate’ means starting of a process or activity again from the beginning
without considering what happened earlier. According to the views of professor Hammer and
Champy, the business process reengineering (BPR) is the fundamental reconsideration and
redesigning the structure of the organizational process, in the case to achieve improvement in
present performance. It’s used to develop the individual business visions like the cost
reduction process, reduction in time of the process and also through growth in the quality of
output (1).
In case of critical approaches relating to such systems are; in BPR generally assumes
the factors relating to the performance of an organization are ineffective in case of a process,
which may not true. Again the BPR assumes that in case of implication, those process might
require to start with a clean slate approaches, which is not generic. Even BPR does not
provide effective ways to make focus in case of improving efforts relating to organizations
constraints.
Such process might not be suitable for every organization in mid of redesigning in case
of implications, because such process is conducting through redesigning the whole structure
of the existing process and for such purpose, the existing systems need to be flexible as much
as possible. Instead of this clean slate approach, the organization need to apply such
procedures, which will make some changes regarding its effectiveness (2).
Instead of the clean slate approaches relating to BPR, the TQM systems might be
beneficial for an organization. Instead of completely changing the whole systems from the
beginning or redesigning the existing procedures, TQM is mainly concerned about improving
productivity through the improvements in quality.

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References:
(1) Glick WH. Business Process Reengineering. Wiley Encyclopedia of Management.
2015 Jan 5:1-2.
(2) Iqbal N, Nadeem W, Zaheer A. Impact of BPR critical success factors on inter-
organizational functions: an empirical study. The Business & Management Review.
2015 Feb 1;6(1):152.