Front-to-back Re-engineering
Front-to-back Re-engineering
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: What the Infrastructure Needs to do
Trades and Products
Where do Trades Come From?
The Purpose of the Infrastructure
Typical Infrastructure
Part 2: The Problems with Trade Processing Infrastructure
The Problems
The Evolution of Technical Complexity
The Regulatory Challenges
The Complexity Cycle
Part 3: Historic Approaches to Transformation
BAU/Incremental Change
Front-to-back Re-engineering
Functionalisation, aka “Factories”
Front-to-back Systems
The Golden Middle
Simplification
Part 4: New Approaches to Infrastructure
Digital
Cloud and Utilities
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
Big Data and Analytics
Blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology
Distributed Ledger Technology: Hybrid Approach
Nirvana?
It is time to stop paving the cow paths. Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over. We should “reengineer” our businesses: use the power of modern information technology to radically redesign our business processes in order to achieve dramatic improvements in their performance.
– Michael Hammer
If you want to sound as though you are making an intelligent contribution to any meeting about capital markets infrastructure or improving the related business processes, it is compulsory to throw in as many variations on the term “front-to-back” as possible. You need to “think front-to-back”, have a “front-to-back understanding” and ultimately “re-engineer front-to-back” and “re-architect front-to-back”.
This chapter will explain how all this “front-to-back” thinking became so popular, the good reasons for attempting to re-engineer front-to-back, what it means in reality and why it so frequently ends up with unexpected results.
ORIGINS
Front-to-back re-engineering has its key origin in the business process re-engineering (BPR) revolution of the 1990s. BPR began with Michael Hammer, a computer science professor
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