Some of the most important lessons drawn by Thong et al. (2000) can be summa' rized as follows:
- Public organizations are highly resistant to change. Social and political changes are the main pressures on them to re-engineer their processes.
- Nominate a steering committee to gain approval of redesigned procedures.
- Locate the re-engineering team at the pilot site as it helps overcome user resistance to change.
- Validate the documented work process with operational staff to ensure its accuracy.
- Set benchmarks for improving the current processes, e.g. by adapting performanceindicators from the private sector.
- Review staff training needs for the redesigned jobs.
- Revise the incentive structure to support the redesigned processes.
- Start with a successful pilot implementation, which will help to obtain approval for the main funding.
- Plan the rollout of redesigned processes throughout the organization carefully.
- View reengineering and ICT as an integrated strategy.