0 the process of changing and improving the design of a product or system:
1 the process of changing and improving the way a company works, the way a job is done, etc.:
They have applied these principles to a complex process of business re-engineering.
The re-engineering methodology proposes a waterfall life cycle for carrying out the steps of reverse engineering, restructuring and forward engineering.
An extensive change in management and support programmes was implemented to facilitate the associated re-engineering of procedures.
There is even a proposal for re-engineering ontologies, and several proposals for collaborative construction of ontologies.
In this context business process re-engineering is an important ingredient for the deployment of the techniques and approaches mentioned above.
This, however, would require re-engineering the system to achieve fuller integration than at present.
The up side of re-engineering is that it gives us the opportunity to rethink what we are doing.
The international uncontrolled leakage and spillover of technological knowledge would benefit the technological strategy of laggard countries, based upon fast imitation and re-engineering.
Initiating large social programs and re-engineering the genome will fail as surely as every holy war.
