It had its predecessors and competitors in such concepts or techniques as zero-based budgeting (another from-the-ground-up approach), intrapreneuring, visioning, de-massing, de-layering, etc. Thus it was labeled a fad immediately by some but embraced by others. Reengineering came at a time when many other waves of managerial technique had already crashed on the rocky shores of corporate bureaucracy. Since it could be applied to corporations as a whole or specific processes within the business (purchasing, marketing, production, etc.) it came to be called Business Process Reengineering and abbreviated BPR. Bloated, sloppy, slow, unresponsive, expensive, unfocused organizations are supposed to become lean, quick, effective, responsive, competitive, agile, and concentrated. It is supposed to transform not only what is done but how it is done, thus to change the corporate culture. "Reengineering" functionally resembles planned change and what people have traditionally called "reorganization," but, in its beginnings, it came with a definite flavor of "starting from scratch," "blank slate," and "from the ground up." Its promoters advocated radical approaches, used terms like "the big bang," and generally rendered the process of reengineering in revolutionary terminology -whereas the word itself suggested the rational approach of "engineering."įunctionally reengineering calls for rediscovering the objectives of a business, diagnosing ills and discovering new paths to the objectives, design of a process, and then its implementation. The book was reissued in 2003 and is cited below. Most commentators cite publication of a 1993 book by consultants Michael Hammer and James Champy, entitled Reengineering the Corporation, as the important moment when reengineering became a movement. Urn:oclc:876707579 Scandate 20090911155233 Scanner scribe10.la.archive."Reengineering" as a business battle cry was first heard in the early 1990s. O元254793W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.52 Pages 252 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0066621127 Urn:lcp:reengineeringcor00hamm:epub:2319e1ed-624c-49ab-ae65-ba6c28cd4dc7 Extramarc University of Pennsylvania Franklin Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier reengineeringcor00hamm Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3qv41n3n Isbn 0887306403ĩ780887306402 Lccn 92054748 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 22:28:03 Boxid IA100904 Boxid_2 CH100401 Camera Canon 5D City New York, NY Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪlibris Edition 1.
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