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研究生: 陳世瑋
Wiraputra - Sutan
論文名稱: Benchmarking Based Process Reengineering for Construction Management
Benchmarking Based Process Reengineering for Construction Management
指導教授: 鄭明淵
Min-Yuan Cheng
口試委員: 郭斯傑
none
楊亦東
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潘南飛
none
謝佑明
none
呂守陞
none
學位類別: 碩士
Master
系所名稱: 工程學院 - 營建工程系
Department of Civil and Construction Engineering
論文出版年: 2007
畢業學年度: 95
語文別: 英文
論文頁數: 102
中文關鍵詞: benchmarkingbusiness process reengineering (BPR)semantic similarity
外文關鍵詞: benchmarking, business process reengineering (BPR), semantic similarity
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  • Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is considered to be the fastest methodology to be used in order to improve business process in a current fast-changing environment. BPR attempts to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance by using the power of modern information technology (IT) fundamentally to rethink and radically to redesign the business process. However, many construction industries proposed BPR to evaluate the business process, not to redesign the business process. This study focuses on the idea of “Business Process Reengineering (BPR)” in applying benchmarking philosophy to redesign the business process.
    The construction industry has been slow to adopt competitive benchmarking as a tool for continuous improvement. Identifying, and adapting the best-practice process are the important factors of benchmarking. In order to determine the most suitable process from best practice companies’ to be adapted in the benchmarking company, an accurate analysis of the gaps between best-practice processes and benchmarking company’s process is essential for the redesign of business processes.
    This research integrates BPR philosophy, semantic similarities concept and trend model concept to develop a benchmarking-oriented process reengineering (BOPR) that enables a project team to determine the most suitable process from the best practice company. A four-phased process analysis including business process modeling, process similarities analysis, process communication index analysis and process adaptability calculation was developed. An approach of applying the concepts of semantic similarities analysis to find the semantic-related objects between best-practice processes and benchmarking process was also proposed. In addition, trend model concept was applied to evaluate the degree of communication ease of best-practice processes when it is adapted in a benchmarking company.
    Summarily, by referring the proposed BOPR method, project team will have better understanding in determining the most suitable process from best-practice companies to be adapted in benchmarking company.


    Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is considered to be the fastest methodology to be used in order to improve business process in a current fast-changing environment. BPR attempts to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance by using the power of modern information technology (IT) fundamentally to rethink and radically to redesign the business process. However, many construction industries proposed BPR to evaluate the business process, not to redesign the business process. This study focuses on the idea of “Business Process Reengineering (BPR)” in applying benchmarking philosophy to redesign the business process.
    The construction industry has been slow to adopt competitive benchmarking as a tool for continuous improvement. Identifying, and adapting the best-practice process are the important factors of benchmarking. In order to determine the most suitable process from best practice companies’ to be adapted in the benchmarking company, an accurate analysis of the gaps between best-practice processes and benchmarking company’s process is essential for the redesign of business processes.
    This research integrates BPR philosophy, semantic similarities concept and trend model concept to develop a benchmarking-oriented process reengineering (BOPR) that enables a project team to determine the most suitable process from the best practice company. A four-phased process analysis including business process modeling, process similarities analysis, process communication index analysis and process adaptability calculation was developed. An approach of applying the concepts of semantic similarities analysis to find the semantic-related objects between best-practice processes and benchmarking process was also proposed. In addition, trend model concept was applied to evaluate the degree of communication ease of best-practice processes when it is adapted in a benchmarking company.
    Summarily, by referring the proposed BOPR method, project team will have better understanding in determining the most suitable process from best-practice companies to be adapted in benchmarking company.

    Table 4.1 Definitions of Activity Functions (De Antonellis and Zonta, 1990)57 Table 4.2 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Input Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 160 Table 4.3 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Output Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 160 Table 4.4 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Input Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 261 Table 4.5 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Output Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 261 Table 4.6 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Input Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 362 Table 4.7 Name Set Affinity (Nsa) of Output Data Set of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 362 Table 4.8 Process Function Similarities (PFSim) of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 164 Table 4.9 Process Function Similarities (PFSim) of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 264 Table 4.10 Process Function Similarities (PFSim) of Procurement Process between Benchmarking Company and Best practice Company 365 Table 4.11 Activity Relationship Matrix (ARM) Benchmarking Company Referring to Best practice Company 1 Procurement Process72 Table 4.12 Activity Relationship Matrix (ARM) Benchmarking Company Referring to Best practice Company 2 Procurement Process72 Table 4.13 Activity Relationship Matrix (ARM) Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 3 Procurement Process.72 Table 4.14 Pairwise Comparison76 Table 4.15 Inconsistent Matrix of Pairwise Comparison77 Table 4.16 Normalized Matrix, Row Sums77 Table 4.17 Totaling the Entries78 Table 4.18 Overall priorities of Ki79 Table 4.19 Communication Resistance Matrix (CRM) Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 1 Procurement Process80 Table 4.20 Communication Resistance Matrix (CRM) Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 2 Procurement Process80 Table 4.21 Communication Resistance Matrix (CRM) Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 3 Procurement Process80 Table 4.22 Total Resistance Calculation of Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 1 Procurement Process82 Table 4.23 Total Resistance Calculation of Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 2 Procurement Process…………………………………..82 Table 4.24 Total Resistance Calculation of Benchmarking Company referring to Best practice Company 3 Procurement Process82 Table 4.25 Total Resistance Index of Benchmarking Company82 Table 4.26 Total Communication Index of Benchmarking Company83 Table 4.27 Adaptability Index (AI) Pairwise Comparison between Process Similarity and Process Communication Index85 Table 4.28 Adaptability Index (AI) Pairwise Comparison between PI Sim and PF Sim.85 Table 4.29 Inconsistent Matrix of Process Similarity and Process Communication Index86 Table 4.30 Relative Weight of Process Similarity and Process Communication Index86 Table 4.31 Inconsistent Matrix of PI Sim and PF Sim86 Table 4.32 Relative Weight of PI Sim and PF Sim86 Table 4.33 Process Information Similarity (PI SIM) Normalization87 Table 4.34 Process Functional Similarity (PF SIM) Normalization87 Table 4.35 Adaptability Index (AI) of Procurement Process88

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