organizational reengineering

organizational reengineering [‚ȯr·gə·nə‚zā·shən·əl ‚rē‚en·jə′nir·iŋ]

(systems engineering)

The study, capture, and modification of the internal mechanisms or functionality of existing system-management processes and practices in an organization in order to reconstitute them in a new form and with new features, often to take advantage of newly emerged organizational competitiveness requirements, but without changing the inherent purpose of the organization itself. Also known as systems management reengineering.