

Reengineering the Corporation: Benefits & backing.If it ain’t broke: Reorganizing organizations the Hammer & Champy way.Be the process that you want to reengineer.

That’s how much I care.Īnd because I care, I’ve taken all that super relevant knowledge, filtered it through my usual scampishness, and now offer you an overview of the book, the concept, and what it means for your favorite COO.

These are the things I’m willing to do for you. I wanted to find out, so I asked many experts many, many questions (shoutouts to the ones who didn’t file restraining orders! You’re the best 💖) and read far too many long-winded reports. If I’d built an entire career on a single concept, I’d be pretty pleased with myself, too.īut is their idea still relevant nearly 30 years later? Based on their personal bios and their book, both are imminently pleased with themselves about this.įair enough. Michael Hammer and James Champy, both highly lauded as leading practitioners of their own concept. Recently, I picked up Reengineering the Corporation by Dr. Or, in this case, basic common sense as innovative management techniques. It is the practical guide for which business people have been waiting to help them achieve the dramatic improvements - in speed, productivity, quality, service and profits - that reengineering promises.I view most management gurus with the same wariness and suspicion the average person might approach a traveling medicine show peddling sparkling water as a miracle cure. Just as Reengineering the Corporation shot to the top of the bestseller charts, so has The Reengineering Revolution. In an easy-reading, anecdotal style, the book offers behind-the-scenes stories of reengineering successes and failures practical techniques for key aspects of reengineering, from breaking long standing assumptions to managing change and insights into the new ways of thinking that reengineering requires. In The Reengineering Revolution, Michael Hammer and Steven Stanton build on this foundation to share with readers their experiences in successfully implementing reengineering in companies around the world. It is undoubtedly the business concept of the nineties. Reengineering has become a part of everyone's business vocabulary. Hailed by Business Week   as "the best-written, most well-reasoned business book for the managerial masses since In Search of Excellence ," the book has appeared on virtually every bestseller list, including a six-month run on The New York Times list. Reengineering the Corporation  has swept through corporate America with a force unprecedented in recent years.
