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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
Death Date
2008-09-03 1
Death Year
2008 1
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.' 2
Notable Work
Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993, with James A. Champy) 1
Connections

Associated With

Source Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer

Theories and Models Developed

Source Wikipedia, Michael Martin Hammer
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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. 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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