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A bold and revolutionary thinker’s legacy for how business canmeet the greatest economic challenge in decades...
It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies dothings is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggestopportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world inwhich consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from thedevastating combination of low-wage countries with highskills.
For more than a decade, following his landmark Reengineering theCorporation, Michael Hammer did “deep dives” into the processes ofcompanies in every imaginable business—from oil refineries tosoftware developers, factories, retailers, and hospitals—tounderstand the nuts and bolts of how they do their work, and thento advise them how to do it differently to become faster, cheaper,better. The results were the right product, at the right time, withthe right price and quality—businesses that not only ate thecompetitions’ lunch but their breakfast and dinner, too.
It’s no secret: everyone knows that the way most companies dothings is screwed up. Surprisingly, though, herein lays the biggestopportunity for improving growth and profitability in a world inwhich consumers are tapped out and competition is coming from thedevastating combination of low-wage countries with highskills.
For more than a decade, following his landmark Reengineering theCorporation, Michael Hammer did “deep dives” into the processes ofcompanies in every imaginable business—from oil refineries tosoftware developers, factories, retailers, and hospitals—tounderstand the nuts and bolts of how they do their work, and thento advise them how to do it differently to become faster, cheaper,better. The results were the right product, at the right time, withthe right price and quality—businesses that not only ate thecompetitions’ lunch but their breakfast and dinner, too.