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Founders, Executives and Management Thinkers

Michael Hammer

Management Theorist

American engineer, management author and former professor of computer science at MIT. With James A. Champy he founded the management theory of business process re-engineering, presented in their 1993 best-seller Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Birth Date
1948-04-13 1
Birth Year
1948 1
Birth Year
1955 2
Death Date
2008-09-03 1
Death Year
2008 1
Death Year
2022 2
Birthplace
Annapolis, Maryland, United States 1
Nationality
American 1
Defining Contribution
Founded business process re-engineering with James A. Champy after his 1990 Harvard Business Review article 'Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate.' 3
Notable Work
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993, with James A. Champy) 1
Connections

Associated With

Management Consulting Industry, Industries
Source Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer

Theories and Models Developed

Business Process Re-engineering, Management Theories
Source Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer
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Nationality

United States

Also in Geography Atlas: the nationality of this subject.

Source Wikipedia, Michael Martin HammerLead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia articletier 2
Quote, Lead paragraph of the cited Wikipedia article
Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – September 3, 2008) was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Sources
1. Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer
Wikipedia
  • lead section
    Hammer and James A. Champy founded the management theory of business process reengineering (BPR), which they presented in their best-selling Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution in 1993.
  • Associated With: Management Consulting Industry
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2. Wikidata: Michael Hammer
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  • Wikidata Q16186690 P569 (w-bbfill-business4-0926 knownqid fetch)
  • Wikidata Q16186690 P570 (w-bbfill-business4-0926 knownqid fetch)
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3. Wikipedia, Business Process Re-engineering
Wikipedialead section, History
Quote, lead section, History
In 1990, Michael Hammer, a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published the article 'Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate' in the Harvard Business Review
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