Enterprise Reengineering

Author: (USA) Hammer, M., (USA) Champ, J. (Auth.), translated by Wang Shanshan et al.
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Publishing Date: 2007-01-01
Features: Reengineering the Corporation once climbed the New York Times bestseller list. In the 1990s, this book indeed triggered a major transformation in the business world. With the times changing, as managers shift their focus from "reengineering" to boundaries previously unexplored within organizations, and to new horizons of corporate operational performance, Champ's new book was born. The high walls standing between businesses, customers, suppliers, and even competitors are continuously crumbling. In today's world of free-flowing information and goods, Reengineering the Corporation presents readers with a brand-new model of corporate operation. This book is a bestseller on corporate management published in the United States in recent years. The current corporate systems, organizational structures, and management models in developed Western countries are products of the industrial society that emerged two centuries ago. They emphasize the specialization of labor and hierarchical management. With technological advancements, humanity has entered the information age, and past management methods are no longer applicable. As a result, Western academia and the business world have proposed various reforms and theories for corporate management. Dr. Hammer, one of the world's top ten management masters, proposes in this book that corporate reform should be radical and fundamental, especially that the business processes of enterprises should be thoroughly reengineered. He cites examples from three companies, including IBM, to demonstrate that only by reengineering business processes can corporate performance and service quality be significantly improved. This book is a bestseller on corporate management published in the United States in recent years. The current corporate systems, organizational structures, and management models in developed Western countries are products of the industrial society that emerged two centuries ago. They emphasize the specialization of labor and hierarchical management. With technological advancements, humanity has entered the information age, and past management methods are no longer applicable. As a result, Western academia and the business world have proposed various reforms and theories for corporate management. Dr. Hammer, one of the world's top ten management masters, proposes in this book that corporate reform should be radical and fundamental, especially that the business processes of enterprises should be thoroughly reengineered. He cites examples from three companies, including IBM, to demonstrate that only by reengineering business processes can corporate performance be significantly enhanced and service quality improved. Over the past two decades, Chinese enterprises have undergone earth-shaking changes and progress. However, the entire economy still lags behind the early to mid-stages of industrialization, with most enterprises at best at the mid to late stages of industrialization in terms of form and operation. Therefore, for many of our enterprises, the reengineering of management and operations is timely and urgent. Reengineering the Corporation once climbed the New York Times bestseller list. In the 1990s, this book indeed triggered a major transformation in the business world. With the times changing, as managers shift their focus from "reengineering" to boundaries previously unexplored within organizations, and to new horizons of corporate operational performance, Champ's new book was born. The high walls standing between businesses, customers, suppliers, and even competitors are continuously crumbling. In today's world of free-flowing information and goods, Reengineering the Corporation presents readers with a brand-new model of corporate operation.