WASHINGTON -- In 1801, Eli Whitney disassembled ten muskets made from interchangeable parts, placed the parts in a big pile, and then reassembled ten muskets from parts picked at random, demonstrating ...

It might go by the same name, but today’s slimmed-down business process re-engineering bears little resemblance to its clunky predecessor. Twenty-five years after management guru Michael Hammer ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- The Army itself can be thought of as a large enterprise whose mission is fighting and winning America's wars. But within that enterprise are many sub-enterprises supporting that mission, ...

In the early 1980s, technology silos, those free-standing islands of innovation in divisions such as marketing, finance and human resources, were the pride of individual functional units. But as the ...

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 ...

Process Engineering encompasses the analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, design, control and operation of process systems, from micro-sized systems to huge industrial facilities. Many ...

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 ...