# Michael Hammer

- Quotes: 8
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer

## Books

- [Reengineering the Corporation](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation.md) — 8 quotes

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> A business process is a collection of activities that takes one or more kinds of input and creates an output that is of value to the customer. A business process has a goal and is affected by events occurring in the external world or in other processes.

p. 35 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/a-business-process.md)

> Sadly, we must report that despite the success stories described in previous chapters, many companies that begin reengineering don’t succeed at it... Our unscientific estimate is that as many as 50 to 70 percent of the organizations that undertake a reengineering effort do not achieve the dramatic results they intended.

p. 200 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/sadly-we-must.md)

> Observing and performing the process is the best way to develop insight into it. However, the team must be vigilant about avoiding the temptation to overstudy. The goal must be to move quickly to redesign. Before concluding we should comment on another tool that is available to reengineering teams, namely benchmarking. Essentially, benchmarking means looking for the companies that are doing something best and learning how they do it in order to emulate them... Used this way, benchmarking is just a tool for catching up, not for jumping way ahead. Benchmarking can, however, spark ideas in the team—especially if teams use as their benchmarks companies from outside their own industries.

p. 132 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/observing-and-performing.md)

> Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in critical contemporary measures of performance such as cost, quality, service and speed.

p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/reengineering-is-the.md)

> The genesis of reengineering lies in a phrase one of us coined in the late 1980s: “Automating a mess yields an automated mess.” Unless an organization reconceptualized its operations, overlaying new technology on these operations accomplished little.

p. 7 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/the-genesis-of-reengineering.md)

> 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. We need something entirely different

p. 30 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/americas-business-problem.md)

> 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.

p. 11 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/reengineering-posits-a-radical.md)

> Business reengineering isn't about fixing anything. Business reengineering means starting all over, starting from scratch. Business reengineering means putting aside much of the received wisdom of two hundred years of industrial management,... How people and companies did things yesterday doesn't matter to the business reengineer.

p. 2 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/michael-hammer/reengineering-the-corporation/business-reengineering-isnt.md)