RUN! IT’S THE BPR BEAST… BURP…

Well, that perhaps is the only sound that comes out of this monster after it has steamrolled its target corporations; that’s the power of the beast called BPR or Business Process Reengineering… It was in 1995 when Fred Wiersema (a consultant at worldfamous CSC Index) and Michael Treacy (who had previously worked for CSC Index) came out with a book, ‘The Discipline of Market Leaders’. The book sold 250,000 copies within six months but in August 1995, Business Week disclosed how these two consultants and CSC Index had actually used unethical tactics – by buying-off copies all over the US to increase sales! One of the co-founders of CSC Index was renowned author, James Champy, who had been caught using the same methodology, a few years before he & Michael Hammer (MIT professor) wrote a book titled – ‘Reengineering Management’ – the book that defined the basics of BPR!

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Source:- IIPM Editorial

An IIPM And Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri’s Initiative