Reengineering the Corporation
The million copy
international bestseller, now revised and updated for the new century
Already a business classic,
this international bestseller has now been extensively revised and updated with a new
Introduction for the new economy Hammer and Champy helped to create.
Reengineering the Corporation
describes how the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization and culture can
achieve a quantum leap in performance, helping corporations save millions more, raise
their customer satisfaction still higher, and grow ever more nimble.
But if you think that
reengineering once was enough, think again. In the 1990s, reengineering was implemented in
the back office, the factory and the warehouse. For the new century it is being applied to
the front office and the revenue-producing side of the business: product development,
sales and marketing.
The new wave of reengineering
is breaking down the walls that separate corporations from each other. Processes do not
stop at corporate doorsteps. Product development, planning and many other processes are
really inter-enterprise in nature:
entailing work by both
customer and supplier. Ws;-,
This new edition contains an
entirely new set of case studies with a focus on three well-known companies - Duke Power,
IBM and Deere - whose leadership positions at the end of the 1990s are due in no'small
part to their reengineering programmes.
Business Week dubbed the
implementation of e-commerce 'e-engineering'. The internet demands new ways of working,
and reengineering is the tool that can create them.
"Business
reengineering does not sound revolutionary, but it is. Mike Hammer and Jim Champy explain
why and show how it is done and they do it crisply and cogently. If you want your business
to survive you should read this book." Charles Handy
Dr Michael Hammer introduced
the concept of reengineering in his seminal Harvard Business Review article 'Reengineering
Work: Don,t Automate, Obliterate'. He was named one of the four preeminent management
thinkers of the 1990s by Business M/ee/cand one of America's twenty-five most influential
individuals by Time.
Shames Champy is a leading
practitioner of reengineering and chairman Perot systems consulting practice. He
works with major companies in reinventing their operations for the Digital Age.
256 pages