Beyond Re-Engineering: How the Process-centred Organization Is Changing Our Work and Our Lives [Paperback]

‘Better than reengineering. This is an extremely important book’
Tom Peters, author of In Search of Excellence

Around the world, companies are reinventing the rules, assumptions and policies of the industrial era. Beyond Re-engineering charts the progress of this phenomenon and looks to the future.

Michael Hammer is one of the world’s leading business thinkers. In 1990 he pioneered reengineering and set in motion a series of events that has transformed the business world beyond recognition.

To succeed – or even to survive – in today’s global economy, companies must refocus and reorganize themselves around their core processes: the end-to-end sequences of tasks that create customer value.

The process-centred organization signifies a break with the past and, as such, marks the end of the Industrial Revolution and of the organizations that were designed for it. It means the end of narrow jobs, supervisory management, traditional career paths and feudal cultures, and ushers in a new era of flexibility.

Beyond Re-engineering is not about reengineering, it is about the shape of tomorrow’s businesses. Michael Hammer illuminates this new world in which all the familiar rules have been broken, and helps people to prepare for a radically different business future.

'Beyond Reengineering' is not about reengineering, it is about the shape of tomorrow’s businesses.

To succeed – or even to survive – in today’s global economy, companies must refocus and reorganize themselves around their core processes: the end-to-end sequences of tasks that create customer value. The process-centred organization signifies a complete break with the past and, as such, marks the end of the Industrial Revolution and of the organizations that were designed for it. It means the end of narrow jobs, supervisory management, traditional career paths and feudal cultures, and ushers in a new era of flexibility. For a world of process-centred organizations everything must be rethought: the kinds of work that people do, the jobs they hold, the skills they need, the careers they follow, the roles managers play and the principles of strategy that companies follow.

Michael Hammer illuminates this new world in which all the familiar rules have been broken, and this helps people to prepare for a radically different business future.

“Hammer has done it again!”
Stephen R. Covey, author of 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'

“I strongly recommend 'Beyond Reengineering' to learn how companies can organize for learning, value creation, and sustainable growth”
Robert S. Kaplan, Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting, Harvard Business School

Michael Hammer is widely known as the originator and leading advocate of the concept of business reengineering. His previous books, Reegineering the Corporation, which he wrote with James Champy, and The Reengineering Revolution were both international bestsellers. A former professor at MIT, Dr Hammer is currently president of Hammer and Company.