THE ERA OF BUSSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING

27^th January, 2012:

            Mr. P S Easwaran, Director - Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India (P) Ltd delivered a lecture on “Business Process Re-Engineering” which was organized by the colloquium committee of IFMR. He has immense experience in the field of consulting. He started the lecture by giving a brief description about his experience with the IFMRians whom he had encountered in the industry. He shared his insight and knowledge in the BPR process which involves transformation of an organization in ways that directly affects performance.

Mr. Easwaran stressed that the key to BPR is the elimination of redundancies in processes involved in the organizations. He explained the BPR process in simple terms involving audit to cash, procure to pay and concept launch techniques. Several waste reduction items involving inventory, weighting, transporting, rework and motion were also elaborated by him. He delivered an impromptu lecture pointing out various ways in which BPR has been utilized in the sectors such as banking, manufacturing and information technology. He quoted several examples in which these industries greatly benefited from the BPR approach.

His lecture was based on practical approach which is practiced by the consultants on job. He advised to question everything and revisit every single line item in BPR, as trivial things might be the key changers for an organization and he laid down several examples indicating the same. The lecture was attended by both 1^st and 2^nd year students who participated in the lecture enthusiastically. Several queries related to BPR and Deloitte were also addressed by him. The audience was enlightened from his humorous yet informative speech about the BPR process. On behalf of IFMR a memento was presented to Mr.Easwaran.

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