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 ...

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 ...

You can improve company performance by re-engineering your organizational structure to make it match your market environment more closely. Your market has constraints and characteristics that affect ...

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 ...

Today SoCs are becoming increasingly complex with hundreds of IPs being reused, integrated and further translated into millions of transistors in the design process. Each IP used in these SoCs evolves ...

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At its height, business-process reengineering was one of the biggest business ideas ever. Business historians of the future will characterize the 1990s as the decade of reengineering. Described in ...

The technology industry is comfortable with trends that increase linearly for decades—and many that follow quadratic curves, also seemingly forever. Moore’s Law and the rate of adoption of new ...

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 ...