Business process reengineering is a tool for

radically redesigning and streamlining how an activity is performed, with the intent of achieving quantum improvements in performance.

avoiding the shortcomings of a fragmented functional organization structure by reorganizing a company's entire business operation into a series of process departments and charging each process department with full responsibility for performins all aspects of a particular value chain activity.

expediting the redesign of existing products and shortening the design$-$to$-$market cycle.

using Six Sigma techniques to reduce the errors and defects in performing value chain activities.

instituting total quality management of all value chain activities.