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Rapid Transformation: A 90-day Plan for Fast and Effective Change 10 reviews
Behnam N. Tabrizi
Harvard Business School Press, 2007
A brilliant analysis of "the ultimate power of transformation"
With regard to this book's title and to the model that Behnam N. Tabrizi proposes in this volume, it is important to note at the outset that he does not believe that organizational transformation can be completed in only three months. What he offers is a framework with which to formulate a program that, once implemented, may require 6-12 additional months (or more) to achieve the desired ...
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Beyond Reengineering: How the Process-Centered Organization is Changing Our Work and Our Lives 9 reviews
Michael Hammer
Collins Business, 1997
A must read for anyone interested in how organizations work
I recently had the privilige of attending a Dr. Hammer seminar in Boston and can tell you that this book tracks closely with his seminar which was the best I have ever attended. The book however goes into much greater detail and depth than a one day high level seminar can go to. The portions that described the first principles of business (chapter 6)and the dramatic impact that process ...
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Workflow Modeling: Tools for Process Improvement and Application Development 13 reviews
Alec Sharp, Patrick McDermott
Artech House Publishers, 2001
Excellent Business Process Modeling Book
Everything started with the creation of a two days workshop: Workflow Process Modeling. The authors have continually improved the workshop with participants' feedback and ideas based on their own hands-on consulting work with many organizations. The book is very well structured and it is based on real world experience. The structure is simple with no unnecessary parts that usually fill other ...
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The Reengineering Alternative: A Plan for Making Your Current Culture Work
William E. Schneider
McGraw-Hill Companies, 1999
Every business has its own particular kind of corporate culture. Before you sink a lot money, time, and effort into a reengineering project, do you know if your organization would benefit from such a program? The Reengineering Alternative explains how companies can develop effective improvement plans based not on some cookie-cutter notion of change management, but upon that organization's unique strengths and corporate objectives. This book will ...
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Process Redesign: The Implementation Guide for Managers (Engineering Process Improvement Series)7 reviews
Arthur R. Tenner, Irving J. DeToro
Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
Comprehensive and full of excellent info & ideas
I got this book based on a friend's recommendation because I was struggling with a process design application called iGrafx Process (also available from Amazon). I learned that there is much more to process design than basic models based on entry, task, validation and exit criteria. For example, performance measurements and performance efficiency were two areas where this book strengthened my ...
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Building Enterprise Information Architectures: Reengineering Information Systems (HP Professional Series)11 reviews
Melissa Cook, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
Prentice Hall PTR, 1996
Business-Focused and pragmatic - highly recommended
Ms. Cook takes a no-nonsense approach to building an enterprise architecture that puts business requirements first. She starts this excellent book with a quick history, setting information architecture into a context. This is followed by addressing the hard part of architecture: overcoming political resistance and tackling the thorny problems of aligning systems to what the business needs. She ...
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Making Sense of Change Management: A Complete Guide to the Models, Tools & Techniques of Organizational Change9 reviews
Esther Cameron, Mike Green
Kogan Page, 2004
The Definitive Change Management Book
If you are in the field of change management - - this is a must read. It provides the theory and background necessary to fully understand what has become such a popular field of organizational developement.
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Business Process Improvement Toolbox, Second Edition
Andersen, Bjørn
ASQ Quality Press, 2007
This best-seller is fully revised and updated! Its goal is still to give readers practical insight into how they can create a coherent business process improvement system. The author works from the premise that consistently working on improving various aspects of how things are done, large and small, is the key to success for any organization. The first half presents an overall business process improvement model, with the ensuing chapters ...
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Business Process Management, Second Edition: Practical Guidelines to Successful Implementations12 reviews
John Jeston, Johan Nelis
Butterworth-Heinemann, 2008
This book is excellent!
If you get any significant responsibility for the management and success of any project having to do with BPM, then this book is a must. It is very practical and it denotes immediately the vast experience and unselfishness of the authors who share precious fruits of their practice. I would like to use this space that Amazon gives us to thank wholeheartedly John Jeston and Johan Nelis for this ...
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (Collins Business Essentials)41 reviews
Michael Hammer, James Champy
Collins Business, 2004
Reengineering the Corporation
Very satified with book, shipping, packaging, and timely fachion sent and received.
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Business Process Management (BPM) is a Team Sport: Play it to Win!8 reviews
Andrew Spanyi
Anclote Press Imprint of Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2003
Business Process Management
This is a book that explains Business Process Management in business terms. The book can be introduced to someone with little or no background of BPM concepts. I have been struggling on how to package BPM to help our organization grow. Someone has finally put together a nicely written, short book that can be completed in a few hours on the first read. I would suggest reading this book two or ...
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Business Process Mapping: Improving Customer Satisfaction3 reviews
J. Mike Jacka, Paulette J. Keller
Wiley, 2001
Provides step by step guidance
I have been looking for an effective analytical tool that would help me make get a good understanding of my company's business processes. This book hit the mark by providing me with step by step guidance. Especially helpful was the expense payment process example as well as the hints it provides on what to avoid while performing a process mapping. Overall it was worth the money.
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Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality
William C. Wimsatt
Harvard University Press, 2007
Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics: they tried to understand the world by breaking it down into the smallest possible bits. Thinkers from the Darwinian sciences now pose alternatives to this simplistic reductionism. In this intellectual tour--essays spanning thirty years--William Wimsatt argues that scientists seek to atomize phenomena only when necessary in the search to understand how entities, events, and processes articulate ...
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The Reengineering Revolution3 reviews
Michael Hammer
Collins Business, 1995
LONG LIVE THE IDEAS OF THIS PROACTIVE MANAGER!
Michael Hammer is truly a proactive manager. His ideas strike hard and are STILL needed here in the US and abroad. He helped us prune our organization so it could grow. Reengineering will take on many forms as the business world around us changes, but the concepts are rock-solid and they will be the best foundation for a business that wants to continually improve. Hammer covers all of the ...
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Shared Services: Adding Value to the Business Units1 review
Donniel S. Schulman, Martin J. Harmer, ...
Wiley, 1999
A useful book
There isn't much around on this subject and so it was good to find a book that was reasonably comprehensive. Apart from the advertising for a large CA firm and the message as to the necessity for consultants (shared services is after all a product and a money spinner for them)I thought it was useful.
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The Outsourcing Revolution: Why It Makes Sense and How to Do It Right 40 reviews
Michael F. Corbett
Kaplan Business, 2004
Best of Breed
For my money, clearly the best book available on outsourcing. While others seem loaded up with simplistic templates and general information readily available over the web, Corbett actually explains what's happening and why and provided me (and my company) a clear roadmap for all of our outsourcing work.
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Process Innovation: Reengineering Work Through Information Technology3 reviews
Thomas H. Davenport
Harvard Business School Press, 1992
A roadmap for process innovation and improvement
Davenport presents a practical roadmap for process improvement and process innovation which I have found very useful as a practitioner. Although not prescriptive, the text provides practitioners with useful very insights which can form the basis of an organisation's business process innovation/improvement methodology.
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SAP R/3 Business Blueprint: Understanding the Business Process Reference Model (Enterprise Resource Planning ...13 reviews
Thomas A. Curran, Gerhard Keller, ...
Prentice Hall PTR, 1997
Very well written
I don't normally comment, but I don't know what book the reader from Minn. was reading. I'm guessing he meant to review a different book. This is not a "German" book at all. This is the clearest, best written book on SAP I've read, and I've read most of them. If you need an introduction to the business logic behind SAP, this is the book to buy.
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Managing the Change Process: A Field Book for Change Agents, Team Leaders, and Reengineering Managers3 reviews
David K. Carr, Kelvin J. Hard
McGraw-Hill, 1995
A useful, handy & concise reference book.
A very useful book especially if you are a change agent within your corporation. In relatively short and sharp chapters, the three authors address key issues in managing change. The underlying theme that change is all about people comes out relatively clearly. Though the book is based on much of Coopers & Lybrand's approach to change management, the first six chapters are fairly generic. By ...
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Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution
Michael Hammer, James Champy
Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd, 1995
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