3 posts tagged with "Management"

By John Matthews, BusinessWeek, 1995

It’s 1995, and if you’re working in American business, you can’t have missed it: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the word on everyone’s lips. Boardrooms, management seminars, and business school classrooms are abuzz with talk of radical change, organizational transformation, and the promise of a new era of productivity. If the 1980s were the decade of quality and incremental improvement, the 1990s have become the age of bold reinvention — and at the center of it all are two men: Michael Hammer and James Champy.

By Dr. Hans Keller, Managing Director, HanseTech GmbH, 1993

In the spring of 1993, I had the privilege to spend several weeks in Japan, visiting leading companies such as Toyota, Sony, and Panasonic. As the managing director of HanseTech GmbH, I was eager to learn how Japanese firms have achieved their legendary efficiency and quality. What I discovered fundamentally changed my view of management.

By Richard Mills, Technology Correspondent, Technical Publishing Weekly, 1979

Last week, I attended the bustling halls of the National Computer Conference (NCC) 1979 in New York. As a journalist covering the world of technical publishing, I expected to see the usual array of minicomputers, storage tapes, and a few optimistic software vendors. Instead, I found myself witnessing what may well be the dawn of a new era: the corporate information system.