{"id":5779,"date":"2013-02-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/feb\/11\/will-cpr-significantly-increase-cloud-survival-rates\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T09:30:00","slug":"will-cpr-significantly-increase-cloud-survival-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/will-cpr-significantly-increase-cloud-survival-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Will CPR significantly increase cloud survival rates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\" dir=\"ltr\">IT&nbsp;is an acronym crazed world. So crazy that sometimes &#8211; when running out of three letter ones &#8211; we simply &nbsp;recycle them or add sequence numbers.&nbsp;Remember MRP, which used to mean Material Requirements Planning, but then became Manufacturing Resource Planning (called MRP II to avoid confusion), to only a couple of years &#8211; and a few trillion of investments &#8211; later, resurface as ERP.<\/p>\n<p> In that era the term BPR also became popular. BPR stood for Business Process Re-engineering&nbsp;(see for example Hammer, M. and Champy, J. A.: (1993)&nbsp;Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution), a movement that in my perspective* really gained steam from the realisation that throwing new technology (ERP) at existing processes, only offered limited improvement potential.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Business Process Re-engineering often resulted in massive redundancies and layoffs, BPR got kind of a bad rap, especially among employees and unions (remember those?)<\/p>\n<p> Today the term Business Process &#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT&nbsp;is an acronym crazed world. So crazy that sometimes &#8211; when running out of three letter ones &#8211; we simply &nbsp;recycle them or add sequence numbers.&nbsp;Remember MRP, which used to mean Material Requirements Planning, but then became Manufactur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}