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The aims of this paper is to present a framework on the data collected regarding our research study on Effect of BPR factor on organization performance with moderating role of Information technology. A survey method was used to administer 560 questionnaires to Nigerian banks (Commercial, Microfinance and Primary mortgage finance). Data screening and cleaning was conducted to enable satisfy the assumptions of multivariate analysis. Therefore, the assessment of the missing data, outliers, normality, linearity, and multicollinearity were performed. In addition, factor analysis (PCA) was conducted with help of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS). The results were found to meet the requirement for multivariate analysis.

This study has implications for healthcare practitioners to make greater efforts to implement lean practices and soft TQM. Future studies are suggested to highlight different challenges facing quality improvement in the Region.

Tacit knowledge and personal experience of an individual can only be obtained in a tacit manner. Social capital is a prominent concept that provides a foundation to describe and characterize the properties. Therefore social interaction is very important to facilitate technological knowledge transfer among the units within an organisation. This paper aims to contribute to the existing knowledge in the field of technology transfer by exploring the concept of social capital. It discusses the technology transfer performance and focuses on the important firm-specific asset, which is social capital. By using the data from a survey on industrial firms in one of the technology parks in Malaysia, this paper provides an investigation on the relationship between social capital and technology transfer performance, within the technology park incubating company setting. It was found that social capital has significant relationships with the performance of technology transfer.

The changing dynamics of banking and business environment forced banks to re-engineer their operational process for fantastic business performance. The bank operational process which is intended to meet emerging challenges of bank consolidation, operating cost containment, improvement of customer service and increase revenue call for innovative banking practices through Business Process Re-engineering. This is to enable Nigerian banks to incorporate strategic innovative customer schemes in order to bridge the service gap inherent in a Nigerian banking sector. The broad objectives of this study are: 1) to determine the current status of an operational process reengineered in the Nigerian banks; and 2) To determine the most organizational objective of BPR implementation in Nigerian banks. Self- delivery and collection of data strategy with help of research assistants were used to in this study. Out of 560 questionnaires distributed to the sampled banks, 417 were returned representing 74% rate. First, the study found that Nigerian banks surveyed have re-engineered their branch operations, customer services, cash tellering services, cheque's clearing, domestic fund transfer, loan processing, credit administration and appraisal. In addition, 21.3% of the banks surveyed have reengineered their services with respect to foreign operations, process for letter of credit, Western Union/MoneyGram money payment and wire transfer to a fund through SWIFT and other electronic channels. Second, the result showed that 24.7% of the surveyed banks agreed that enhancement of profit is the most objective of BPR implementation. These followed closely by 23.3% of the surveyed banks that are of the opinion that improvement over the quality of customer service is the most objective of BPR adoption. Furthermore, 20.4%, 11.5% and 12.9% of the survey banks are of the opinion that organisation objective of BPR adoption was to either be proactive, reactive for future/current challenges, competitive pressure being faced as a result of globalization and deregulation of the financial sector or to reduce operating cost respectively. The outcome from this study provides important insights to both managers and researchers for further understanding about the objectives of BPR adoption, and the operational processes reengineered by the banks. The necessary suggestions on new area of research were recommended for future study