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Reengineering the Corporation: A manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), which Hammer he co-authored with James A. Champy, was instrumental in capturing the focus of business community towards Business Process Reengineering (BPR). 2.5 million copies of the book were sold, and the book remained on the New York Times Best Seller list for more ...
In 1990, Michael Hammer, a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published the article "Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate" in the Harvard Business Review, in which he claimed that the major challenge for managers is to obliterate forms of work that do not add value, rather than ...
Michael Hammer also presented the business process orientation concept as an essential ingredient of a successful “reengineering” effort. Hammer coined this term to describe the development of a customer focused, strategic business process based organization enabled by rethinking the assumptions in a process oriented way and utilizing ...
James (Jim) Champy (born 1942) is an Italian American business consultant, and organizational theorist, known for his work in the field of business process reengineering, business process improvement and organizational change.
Business process re-engineering (BPR) was originally conceptualized by Hammer and Davenport as a means to improve organizational effectiveness and productivity. It can involve starting from a "blank slate" and completely recreating major business processes, or it can involve comparing the "as-is" process and the "to-be" process and mapping the ...
Michael Hammer - business process reengineering (1990s) Charles Handy - organisational behaviour (1990s) Paul Harmon - management author; G. Charter Harrison (1881–1959) - Anglo-American management consultant and cost account pioneer; Sven A. Haugland (born 1948) - Norwegian organizational theorist; David L. Hawk
In fact, this was the strategy Hammer used to build his own business. “I have full-time employees,” he said. “I would never have gotten into [this business] without a 12-month emergency fund ...
Hershman was the founder and CEO of the DeNovo Group, a specialized global consulting, training, and research firm focused on leadership, innovation, and business turnarounds. [6] Hershman co-authored her book with the Michael Hammer, a MIT professor who founded the field of business process reengineering. [7]