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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Harare — Ernst & Young Partner Joe Cosma presents the first of three articles on business process re-engineering (BPR). What is BPR all about, and what are its implications on local companies in both ...

Perhaps you remember the articles from the 1990s and the simple eloquence of process streamlining. Later came stories of draconian reductions in workforce, poorly conceived automation, inability to ...

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 ...