Title: Innovation business process reengineering based on workflow technology: a type of e-innovation

Authors: Jin Chen, Dan He, Liang Tong

Addresses: College of Management, Zhejiang University, Huangzhou City, China. ' Department of Computer Science, City College, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. ' College of Management, Zhejiang University, Huangzhou City, China

Abstract: Being faced with more intensive global competition than ever, enterprise must nowadays transform from an efficiency-oriented strategy to an innovation-oriented strategy. The rapid development of information communication technology makes a great impact on the process of New Product Development (NPD). The theory of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) can be used in reengineering of NPD. This paper introduces the basic concepts of e-innovation and workflow, then puts forward a new model of New Product Development Workflow (NPDWF) which realises e-innovation.

Keywords: new product development; NPD; e-innovation; workflow; business process reengineering; BPR; ICT; information technology; communications.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2004.004783

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2004 Vol.3 No.1, pp.20 - 40

Published online: 07 Jul 2004 *

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