Top 11 Quotes by Michael Martin Hammer

Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

Reengineering posits a radical new principle: that the design of work must be based not on hierarchical management and the specialization of labor but on end-to-end processes and the creation of value for the customer.

Michael Martin Hammer

Design, Principles, Management

"Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 11), 1993.

Automating a mess yields an automated mess.

Michael Martin Hammer

Money, Yield, Mess

"Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution" by Michael Hammer, James A. Champy, HarperCollins, (p. 7), 1993.

To succeed at re-engineering, you have to be a missionary, a motivator, and a leg breaker.

Michael Martin Hammer

Change, Engineering, Missionary

Reengineering eliminates work, not jobs or people.

Michael Martin Hammer

Jobs, People

A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.

Michael Martin Hammer

Successful, Careers, Discipline

...heavy investments in information technology have delivered disappointing results - largely because companies tend to use technology to mechanize old ways of doing business...Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.

Michael Martin Hammer

Technology, Starting Over, Use

"Reengineering work: don't automate, obliterate". Harvard Business Review, Volume 68, No.4, pp. 104, 1990.

Unless companies change these rules, any superficial re-organizations they perform will be no more effective than dusting the furniture in Pompeii.

Michael Martin Hammer

Change, Organization, Pompeii

The transitional concept of management is reaching the end of the road.

Michael Martin Hammer

Management, Reaching, Ends

If managing were simple, why do the majority of businesses fail? If physicians had the same success rate as executives, the medical schools would have been shuttered long ago.

Michael Martin Hammer

School, Simple, Long Ago

America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.

Michael Martin Hammer

America, Twenties, Entering

"Reengineering the Corporation". Book by James A. Champy and Michael Martin Hammer, p. 30, 1993.