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Building on the New Economic Foundation and Jubilee 2000's experience of making complex economic issues interesting and attractive to a mass audience, and publishing alternative reports, the Real World Economic Outlook provides an overview and reviews the global economy from a different and radical perspective. This first report looks at globalization and debt deflation.
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The most successful business book of the last decade, Reengineering the Corporation is the pioneering work on the most important topic in business today: achieving dramatic performance improvements. This book leads readers through the radical redesign of a company's processes, organization, and culture to achieve a quantum leap in performance.
Michael Hammer and James Champy have updated and revised their milestone work for the New Economy they helped to create -- promising to help corporations save hundreds of millions of dollars more, raise their customer satisfaction still higher, and grow ever more nimble in the years to come.
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Reengineering the Corporation.......2007-01-12
Very satified with book, shipping, packaging, and timely fachion sent and received.
Burn this Book.......2006-11-21
There is NO EXCUSE for this book to still be in print. "Reengineering" was a trite meaningless buzzword of the early nineties, that when adopted by hack middle managers incapable of thinking anything through, or imagining unexpected results, cost tens of thousands of people their jobs. The authors of this book have already issued their mea culpa for getting so much, so wrong, in the Wall Street Journal. Management fads come and go. Your job is to figure out if the hot new book sweeping through management circles has any merit, or if it's garbage.
I am horrified that this book is even available. If ever there was a book that deserved zero stars, this is it. Stop paying these two moron authors for their incompetent advice.
Collins Busines ESSSENTIALS? Give me a break.
Text on Reengineering.......2006-11-14
Hammer and Champy do a great job of detailing through the reengineering concept and process. They use understandable examples, and communicate benefits, challenges, and necessities well. A bit dry to read and get into, once I got past the beginning, this book moved along nicely.
Reengineering the Corporation .......2006-06-02
The book is written by management consultants who suggest re-engineering the organizations as the most effective way for companies to remain competitive. This entails starting afresh to devise innovative ways to carry out business processes and serve customers more effectively. Managers, employees, business processes, among other things in the entire organization have to radically change so as to save costs, increase revenue, improve quality and serve customers better.
Business process reengineering requires visionary and competent leaders who exploit the vast opportunities availed by the latest information communication technologies, reorganizing employees into cohesive and productive working teams.
This is a well written book with clear explanations reinforced by case studies making it easily understandable to a diverse readership that may wish to understand the concept of business process reengineering and how they can implement it in the organization. They also make a good attempt to rescue business process reengineering from being just another fad of the 1990s and from the appalling image it had acquired for itself as a pretext to indiscriminately retrench people.
One major flaw I see is the perception that business process reengineering is the answers to all problems that an organization may be experiencing and that it is relatively simple and straightforward to implement. That is not always the case and one needs to analyze to see if reengineering is the optimal solution to the challenges of inertia and lack of customer focus and other ills that an organization may be experiencing.
A great book........2005-09-10
I thought this book was very informative and interesting. The writing style used was also good. It was especially nice to read specific stories of successful reengineering.
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Reengineering the Corporation  has swept through corporate America with a force unprecedented in recent years. Hailed by Business Week as "the best-written, most well-reasoned business book for the managerial masses since In Search of Excellence," the book has appeared on virtually every bestseller list, including a six-month run on The New York Times list. Reengineering has become a part of everyone's business vocabulary. It is undoubtedly the business concept of the nineties.
In The Reengineering Revolution, Michael Hammer and Steven Stanton build on this foundation to share with readers their experiences in successfully implementing reengineering in companies around the world. In an easy-reading, anecdotal style, the book offers behind-the-scenes stories of reengineering successes and failures; practical techniques for key aspects of reengineering, from breaking long standing assumptions to managing change; and insights into the new ways of thinking that reengineering requires.
Just as Reengineering the Corporation shot to the top of the bestseller charts, so has The Reengineering Revolution. It is the practical guide for which business people have been waiting to help them achieve the dramatic improvements -- in speed, productivity, quality, service and profits -- that reengineering promises.
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A valuable guide, but missing some questions.......2002-04-04
If you're going to reengineer, this book is a valuable one to have-- in particular, I'd like to take the chapter about choosing a consultant and staple it to the doors of many a company (and I'm a consultant). The book covers elements of success, practical tips for making it work, and some case studies.
What I find missing is the question "Should I reengineer?". (The answer, I think, isn't always 'yes'.) It would be *most* useful if it first helped managers make sure that reengineering really is a Good and Necessary Thing, given the pain it inevitably causes a corporation. There's also a little bit of a sense that nay-sayers shouldn't be tolerated at all, and I find that a little bit short-sighted.
Nice to have for managers and consultants.
Re-engineering Finds The Way.......2001-05-16
After the magnificent marketing of Re-engineering as a radical tool to be used in organizations in order to increase contemporary performance measures such as efficiency, quality and speed, many organizations have started sweeping grand re-engineering projects in the hope that they would reach promised lands. But results of such high-risky re-engineering projects were not much motivating. Upon initial results and understood problems of re-engineering, Hammer wrote this book to close the conceptual and practical gaps of re - engineering. Human side of organizations had been neglected and organizations had been thought as mechanical systems in the first article and book. This book is an endeavor to offset first stage of re-engineering theory and practice.
As in other management models, strong leadership is seen as a critical factor for final success of re-engineering. I think, the reason of serious emphasis on leadership in this book is that some people who practiced re-engineering realized that organizations are also political arenas in which members fight for their privileges and long-term interests. From a humanistic perspective, it is normal to sabotage re-engineering projects which would change power structure in upper-levels of the organizations and would cause many people at lower-levels lose their jobs. It seems that leader is assumed as a man who would table political nature of organizations and lead people walk in dictated direction despite ominous results for them , namely leader is seen as an authority figure who is expected to overwhelm political conflicts between organization members. Ironically, leaders are also political figures, not neutral personalities exempt from corporate politics. I think, authors should think again on leadership and its role in re-engineering projects. Oversimplification is not able to solve most complex problems of organizations.
Although Hammer and his apostles strongly oppose to F.W. Taylor and his approach, there is an important similarity in the logic of their models. Taylor was trying to fully understand the each detail managing the work performed, namely inputs, outputs, and procedures, by conducting time-motion studies, and after he was trying to find the one-best way to do job. It was possible to find best way if you understand all parts of the work performed. Today, this is absolutely what Hammer does. The most outstanding example of re-engineering is order-taking process that is too simple, too mechanistic, accordingly very understandable. Will you please tell me, how can Re-engineering can deal with a decision process. Do people follow a pure-rational mechanistic approach, which is recounted in all management books, when they intend to make a decision. Can you apply re-engineering model to this process which is much complex ? I think, the answer is NO. In this case, Why is re-engineering presented as a radical anti-Taylorist model ? It is so blurred.
We have known for a long time that organizations are SOCIOTECHNICAL systems, but Hammer and his apostles place the emphasis on the technical dimension of the organizations, and other part is behaved as it is stepchild. Organization is consisted of two important structures, which are technical structure (hard structure) and social structure (soft structure). Social structure is also important and in most cases this part dominates and shapes the other part. Therefore there should be an equal emphasis on both of them. A pure-rational model which does not take social fabric of the organization into consideration is subject to failure in practical settings.
The other problem of re-engineering I understood when I read the book is that "Information Technology" is exaggerated to the extent that it is perceived as a panecea. Such a conviction does not hold truth completely. We are reading and witnessing corporations which invest in information technology (hardware and software) and incur big failure costs. Without understanding the problem within the right context, technology is beyond a solution. "Packet problem and packet solution approach" should be abandoned. An organization must understand its problem with its real roots (not assumed) so that it would be able to produce right solution alternatives. "Inquiry discipline" is a prerequisite for long-run solutions.
Overall, I think that should the conceptual and practical gaps are closed, re-engineering has a high potential to become a strong re-organization tool which would stamp on 21 century corporate history . This book is a good starting base in this long way. I recommend this book with three stars.
LONG LIVE THE IDEAS OF THIS PROACTIVE MANAGER!.......2001-05-03
Michael Hammer is truly a proactive manager. His ideas strike hard and are STILL needed here in the US and abroad. He helped us prune our organization so it could grow. Reengineering will take on many forms as the business world around us changes, but the concepts are rock-solid and they will be the best foundation for a business that wants to continually improve.
Hammer covers all of the proactive bases: smart thinking, system thinking, futuristic thinking, and positive thinking. If you want to your business to always be operating at its maximum performance, you should follow his advice. Some of the ideas he promotes are found in SUCCESS BOUND, another book that teaches you how to be a proactive thinker.
One of my favorite quotes is, "The starting point for organization success is well designed processes." Unfortunately too many business managers tried to implement reengineering concepts, but they failed miserably because they didn't take the time to learn from Hammer as to what "well designed" meant.
Read this book and you will find out and you will put your organization on the road to proactive success.
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Business process outsourcing (BPO) is a $6 trillion global industry involving thousands of companies and millions of employees.
Business process outsourcing (BPO) is one of the very few business tools available to managers with the power to fundamentally transform their organizations. Done on a global scale, BPO enables companies to simultaneously reengineer their existing operations, create a more flexible and adaptable organizational structure, and tap the best minds in the world to create an innovation explosion.
For the first time ever, BPO's best-known expert and pioneer, Michael Corbett, who helped craft IBM's entry into the outsourcing business, details the opportunities presented by BPO as well as a plan for implementing and sustaining its benefits.
The Outsourcing Revolution is written for executives and managers in organizations of any size who want to learn how BPO can improve their company's performance. More than a ""how-to"" book, it provides a comprehensive framework for decision making and action based on the real-life experiences of executives heading up successful initiatives for their companies today. Readers will learn how to:
* Determine the value of BPO for any process.
* Analyze risk, evaluate its potential impact, and use a range of techniques to reduce, eliminate, and manage that risk.
* Identify, evaluate, and select the right partner or partners.
* Turn contractor relationships into long-term, successful BPO relationships.
* Transition people, processes, and technologies to the BPO state.
* Identify, develop, and reward outsourcing managers.
* Create new ways of doing business ahead of the competition.
The Outsourcing Revolution features case studies detailing how specific companies planned, implemented, and are managing BPO. Results from surveys of more than 1,500 companies provide real data on what organizations around the world are doing and why, as well as what does and doesn't work.
Customer Reviews:
Outsourcing is a great concept .......2006-06-12
This book gave me a logical and linear process to review the value of outsourcing in my business. I'm a marketing consultant to the accounting industry and my customers are always complaining about a shortage of qualified staff. Knowledgeable accountants are just plain not available to hire at just about any reasonable cost in the past 6 years.
I liked the `value chain' process of determining what other functions could be outsourced in a business, not just to India but maybe local vendors as well. We discovered that with a little thought we might be able to move up to 40% of our operation off site this year, and possibly another 20% next year.
I'm recommending to my accountant customers that they all consider hiring one to five staff from India and start moving all low value, boring tasks off shore.
KC Truby
The Lonesome Cowboy
Good for Historical View on Outsourcing but Not Cutting Edge Current View.......2006-05-06
This books is a short, conversational style (not instructive or informational) read that will leave you largely unsatsified if you are looking for a how-to, why-is, where-are, or what-if.
Outsourcing and offshoring are evolving too quickly and they've already left this offering behind. This book addresses the when-did and who-was, as in personal memoirs. Its not what I would categorize a business book and I think that is what people have expected of it. You get what you pay for so don't let the value price fool you. It was one of the originals but the bookshelves have filled with dozens of much more value provided guides on the subject matter.
Borrow - don't buy, is my advice
Best of Breed.......2006-04-27
For my money, clearly the best book available on outsourcing. While others seem loaded up with simplistic templates and general information readily available over the web, Corbett actually explains what's happening and why and provided me (and my company) a clear roadmap for all of our outsourcing work.
Nothing New .......2006-03-16
The arguement on why to outsource has been debated ad nauseum. Either you see the financial and organization value or you're behind the curve.
Most business leaders are convinced, but if you're not, this book will provide you the same old reasons. I found the book dated as compared to other selections on outsourcing in the book store.
My suggestion is borrow this one...don't buy it.
Nuts and Bolts Offhsoring and Outsourcing Story.......2006-02-25
I, too, failed to see the "how to outsource", but its a well-crafted overview which can assist anyone who is looking to get the history and "pro's vs' con's" of outsourcing.
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The Reengineering Revolution: Critical Studies of Corporate Change
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The Reengineering Revolution reviews the significance of the Business Process Reengineering trend for management practice since the early 1990's.
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Well-known contributors analyze the impact of Business Process Reengineering in a number of settings: supermarkets and the food chain; the public sector; banks.
The theoretical history of Business Process Reengineering is also detailed in relation to ideas about bureaucracy, hierarchy, transformation and design.
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The Horizontal Revolution: Reengineering Your Organization Through Teams (The Jossey-Bass Management)
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Foreword by Stephen Covey
Draws on firsthand experience at implementing and developing hundreds off-diredirected work teams and horizontal initiatives within such corporate revolutionaries as GE, The Walt Disney Company, ITT, and Litton Industries. Offers a strategic and unique guide for those involved in the frontline action of this revolution. Takes a candid and realistic look at the ongoing challenges and ultimate benefits of reengineering organizations through teams.
The Horizontal Revolution documents the radical shift in workplace roles, goals, and souls and presents a step-by-step approach to creating horizontal operations through high-involvement teaming and coaching. It guides readers through the four stages of change: pioneering through reactive and proactive processes, settling-in by rewriting the work contract, tilting the organizational structure toward interdependence, and transforming and exploring new tools for continuous improvement. Filled with hands-on prescriptions, insights, and proven techniques for redistributing ownership and responsibility, and minimizing us versus them conditions, the book delivers a practical approach to making the workplace the center of learning and leadership.
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Leading the Health Care Revolution: A Reengineering Mandate (Management Series (Ann Arbor, Mich.).)
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`This excellent study of agriaran class relations in north Bihar has some old-fashioned virtues. It is compellingly documented, lucidly written, and deals with issues that clearly matter - and not just to Indianists' -
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`Anand Chakravarti has movingly and convincingly shown us that the Kosi River remains a "River of Sorrow" for the downtrodden in Aghanbigha' -
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This book, based on intensive fieldwork, examines the inter-connection between the social power wielded by members of the dominant land-owning caste and their practice of agrarian capitalism.
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This digital document is an article from Pacific Affairs, published by University of British Columbia on March 22, 2003. The length of the article is 719 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Analyses of the ecology, biology and society of past and present-day hunter-gatherers are at the core of this interdisciplinary volume. Since the seminal work of Man the Hunter in 1968, new research in these three areas has become increasingly specialized, and the lines of communication among academic disciplines have all but broken down. This volume aims to reestablish an interdisciplinary debate, presenting critical issues commanding an ongoing interest in hunter-gatherer research, covering the evolution and history, demography, biology, technology, social organization, art, and language of diverse groups. As a reference text, this book will be useful to scholars and students of social anthropology, archaeology, biological anthropology, and human sciences.
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Title: Hunter-Gatherers: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.(Book Review)
Author: Daniel Sellen
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