reengineering
Definition
Systematic starting over and reinventing the way a firm, or a business process, gets its work done. Defined by Michael Hammer and James Champy (in their 1993 book 'Reengineering The Corporation') as "Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business process to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance such as cost, service, and speed.” See also Business Process Reengineering.
reengineering is in the Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership and Information & Knowledge Management subjects.
reengineering appears in the definitions of the following terms: outsourcing, business process improvement (BPI), business rules, cost effect, business process redesign (BPR) and meta-craftsmanship
reengineering appears in these other terms: process reengineering, business process reengineering (BPR)
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