When it comes to using technology to re-invent how companies do business, Michael Hammer wrote the book on the concept. His 1993 best seller "Reengineering the Corporation" (with coauthor James Champy ...

You can improve company performance by re-engineering your organizational structure to make it match your market environment more closely. Your market has constraints and characteristics that affect ...

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Sept 95 Dr. Michael Hammer, famous as coauthor of the international best-seller "Reengineering the Corporation," asserts that technology is a lever to help create new processes for delivering products ...

The tools and techniques of digital transformation greatly simplify and speed up new product development. They are counterproductive and even senseless, however, if put to work supporting the ...

The crisis that will not go away -- Reengineering : the path to change -- Rethinking business processes -- The new world of work -- The enabling role of information technology -- Who will reengineer? ...

Product obsolescence is a fact of life in the IC marketplace. Given the rapid evolution of technology, and the relentless pressure for better, faster, cheaper parts, it is rare that the lifespan of an ...

The technology industry is comfortable with trends that increase linearly for decades—and many that follow quadratic curves, also seemingly forever. Moore’s Law and the rate of adoption of new ...

At its height, business-process reengineering was one of the biggest business ideas ever. Business historians of the future will characterize the 1990s as the decade of reengineering. Described in ...

The idea of re-engineering was first propounded in an article in Harvard Business Review in July–August 1990 by Michael Hammer (see article), then a professor of computer science at MIT. The method ...