The Place of Technological Re-Engineering in the Methodology of the Systemic Description of Innovations

Abstract

The article describes technological reengineering and defines its place in the methodology of describing innovations - technical, technological, organizational, logistical, etc. In the domestic practice of innovative transformations, such tools as rehabilitation, reorganization and restructuring are known. The effectiveness of their application largely depends on the level of integration, perfection and application methodology. Technological reengineering is a derivative tool of innovative transformations, therefore its fundamental aspects are considered together with the concepts of "technological innovations", "management" and "engineering". These tools are characterized. Based on the analysis of the existing interpretations of the concepts of "innovation", "technology", "reengineering" and "reengineering of business processes", the author's definition of the concept of "technological reengineering" is given, which by its nature embodies the elements of all these definitions. The concept of "technological reengineering" specifies the elements of the organizational and economic mechanism of the enterprise, within which fundamental transformations are carried out. The structural and logical essence of the concept of "technological reengineering" is considered as a systemic transformation on a fundamentally new technological basis of the production and technical base and the corresponding organizational and production relations. In contrast to the approaches presented in the scientific literature, the latter represents formalized procedures for radical, complex and systematic transformation of the production base in order to ensure the competitiveness of enterprises and regions and contains production and technical measures that are primarily related to the fundamental renewal of production assets, improvement product quality and cost reduction, improvement of the range of manufactured products. This allows us to detail the essence of this concept and to separate intellectual and technical tools for its implementation, such as remediation, restructuring, reengineering of business processes. It is justified that this definition more comprehensively covers the areas of reengineering and involves the redesign of business processes together with all components of the enterprise's activities. The given definition also allows for the formation of theoretical and methodological provisions regarding the definition of "technological reengineering".