Synopses & Reviews
Reengineering the Corporation, the international bestseller is the pioneering book on the most important topic in business circles today: reengineering--the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance. Michael Hammer and James Champy show how some of the world's premier corporations are reengineering to save hundreds of millions of dollars a year, achieve unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction, and speed up and make more flexible all aspects of their operations.
About the Author
Dr. Michael Hammer is the leading exponent of reengineering and the founder of the reengineering movement. President of Hammer and Company, a Cambridge, Massachusetts management consulting and education firm, Hammer wrote the influential 1990
Harvard Business Reviewarticle, "Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate." He also co-authored thebestselling
The Reengineering Revolutionand
Reengineering the Corporation.
Hammer regularly addresses and consults with many of the world's leading companies on the topic of business reengineering. His seminars on reengineering are attended by thousands of people annually.
Hammer has been profiled in Business Week, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and numerous business publications. He was named one of the four preeminent management thinkers of the 1990's by Business Week and one of America's twenty five most influencial individuals by Time. He was formerly a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.