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Overcoming Business Process Reengineering Obstacles Using Ontology-Based Knowledge Map Methodology, Mahmoud Abdellatif, Marwa Salah Farhan, Naglaa Saeed Shehata

Future Computing and Informatics Journal

Business process reengineering (BPR) is identified as one of the most important solutions for organizational improvements in all performance measures of business processes. However, high failure rates 70% is reported about using it the most important reason that caused the failure is the focus on the process itself; regardless of the surrounding environment, and the knowledge of the organization. The other reasons are due to the lack of tools to determine the causes of the inconsistencies and inefficiencies. This paper proposes Process Reengineering Ontology-based knowledge Map Methodology (PROM) to reduce the failure ratio, solve BPR problems, and overcome their difficulties. …