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In 1987, he became a management consultant, work that started his thinking and research for "Reengineering the Corporation".
Back then, business strategy gurus — authors of books on reengineering the search for excellence in the total quality six-sigma chaos, and all that — dominated the list.
Titles include "Reengineering the Rules of Management," by James Champy, the co-author, with Michael Hammer, of "Reengineering the Corporation," one of the biggest business best sellers of the 1990s, and "Keeping It Honest, From Kitchen to Coca-Cola," by Seth Goldman, co-founder and chief of Honest Tea, the maker of organic drinks.
"Reengineering the Corporation" promoted the idea of simplifying and reorganizing business departments by having the workers break down their activities into logical, bite-size pieces, then take a "clean sheet" approach to reassembling their work for greater efficiency and productivity.
Crucially, the savings have been accompanied by a substantial decline in quality – as revealed by treatment waiting time targets – and many of them have been achieved through one-off savings rather than reengineering the system.
Michael Hammer, the co-author of a best-selling book, "Reengineering the Corporation," which some business experts say significantly influenced the way many corporations have reorganized their workplaces by focusing on the expertise of their employees, died Wednesday in Boston.
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Although the algorithm for reengineering of the full network topology, presented in the first section of this paper, requires hierarchical tree structures, we have shown on the example of reengineering of signalling networks from protein kinase phosphorylation that the basic concept can be applied in a broad range of applications if problem specific adjustments are developed.
Improving the quality of education, the National Health Insurance and reengineering of the primary health care could also address inequalities.
Reengineering fueled the tech market in the early 1990s, and the web craze stoked tremendous growth thereafter.
At a century-old furniture manufacturer, digital leadership means process reengineering from the shop floor to the top floor.
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