Reengineering the Corporation audiobook

This book gets five stars because it saved my business, if not my life. My business partner and I had been working 100+ hour weeks for months (I'd go home at midnight, come back at five or six and ask him if he was already back or still there - he'd typically answer "still here"). Clothes we would typically promise tomorrow were now being promised back a week from tomorrow - and they were still not done in time. It was Labor Day weekend and I was supposed to go to Hilton Head with my wife, but our dry cleaning plant manager ended up in the hospital and the cleaning duties fell to me. Our main cleaning machine suffered a major malfunction, putting us even further behind. I ended up calling on a fellow friend in the business to let me use his equipment. I could go on and on (my wife called on Labor Day to tell me about this great unknown band she'd seen the night before at the last show ever at the famed HH post office by the name of Hootie & the Blowfish - that didn't make me feel any better). Anyway, I spent that Labor Day at my friend's cleaners, catching up best I could. I then stopped at a local park on the way home and began reading this book, which had been given to me by my wife ("here, read this - I'll be in Hilton Head if you need anything"). Almost immediately the book began providing insight into the types of challenges we faced and the potential solutions. One, involving the flow of an unpaid invoice through IBM's accounting maze provided the framework for a solution to our production woes. A month later I took my first day off since the 4th of July. I credit this book, my business partner, my wife and our employees for making that possible. I don't know how much longer I could have survived. So, yes, this book saved a business and a life - and if that doesn't merit five stars, nothing does.

When Information Technology revolutionized the way we worked and lived, businesses were struggling to understand what IT could do for them. Without a change in the business processes, IT could do nothing to add profits to them. Reengineering came into picture just for this reason. This is one of the best books that explained what reengineering was all about and why it was required.

A very good book that describes the difference between continuous process improvement and reengineering (or building a process from scratch).The business examples were useful as were the "reason for failure" chapter. I would love to find a good book on how to build a learning game like the one discussed in the IBM example.

An excellent interesting book. It is a very inspiring story of how corporations transformed themselves to meet the changing demands of the market place. In spite of being released 20 years ago, the book is still useful just a little dated. You will love the book if you are interested in business techniques. I recommend the book for all managers and consultants.

This was an excellent book for anyone looking to transform their organization. It is not easy or popular, but reengineering is the vaccine a dying organization needs in order to live. However, it must be the leaders the own the transformation.

This book should be in the standard curriculum for business students and consultants. Hammer's arguments for a wholesale reorientation in the business world (from task to process organization) make complete sense. But surprisingly, the business world still seems to be stuck in the industrial age.

A simple and quick recipe for how to re-work your cooperate work. Not really fully applicable to all sorts of corporates, yet it gives you a better insight for the big picture.I think its a must read for anyone interested in such topics.

A should-read book on organizational behavior and design for knowledge workers, managers, executives, and entrepreneurs.

Nice book for Operation Managers

I was fascinated by this book. I believe everyone who works at an organization will get a lot of value from this, whether the reader comes from a small business or a corporation. It will persuade you to look at your job from a different perspective. Even though it was originally published several years ago, I believe it contents to be more relevant than ever in the "new normal". Structuring a company or jobs by processes instead of mere tasks (while leveraging information technology) can drastically improve efficiency within an organization. The book first introduces you tho this approach and then supports it with a variety of examples and real world cases that ultimately makes "Re-Engineering" highly compelling. Yet, it also mentions its challenges and various reasons why it would not work. This is not your typical "3 rules to improve your business", it goes much deeper. I would love to know/hear managers' point of view regarding this topic.

Este libro describe la metodología para reinventar una empresa a través de sus procesos, pensándolos desde cero.Promete resultados fantásticos (mejoras del rendimiento superiores al 100%) pero advierte también que la mayoría de proyectos de reingeniería fracasan (y cuenta por que suelen hacerlo).La traducción es mejorable.

A nice introduction. I read after being in the process field for quite sometime. I think it was natural to read the beginning of the work performed. Safe to say, most of the issues then are still relevant today.

Es un buen libro de su tipo, no entretenido pero si educativo.

I have already finished this lecture and it is interesting from the beginning to the end; I had learn new things, concepts and strategies that can be useful for the company where currently I work in; and seeing the examples and errors in processes, there is big desire to have the chance for being part of a reengineering implementation here.It is a very good tool to have in mind even in personal life.I like it a lot.

A very good work, but what works for one company many not work for others. The fallacy is that cleaning out the old and in with the new neglects that organizations can't simple reset to zero and all will be well.