User:Cwdascher15/Michael Martin Hammer

Outline of proposed changes

 * Incorporating BPR work and outcomes
 * Include data on BPR
 * processes improvement
 * effects of re-engineering business corporation
 * Adding more back ground knowledge on Michael hammer and his work
 * Michael hammer career section is very broad and does not include some important

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Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – Sept 3, 2008) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Hammer is Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Michael Hammer and '''James A. Champy  are the founders of The management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR). In which, they wrote "Re-engineering the Corporation: Manifesto for Business Revolution" in 1993.'''

Education
Hammer attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology earning his bachelors degree in math in 1968. He continued his education by earning his Master's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. Hammer being the very motivated he decided to go for his doctorate in computer science in 1973.

Career
Dr. Hammer started his career as a Professor of Computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Engineer by training, Hammer was the proponent of a process-oriented view of business management. After Hammer graduated from the institute worked in the department of Computer Science and a lecturer "assistant" in the MIT Sloan School of Management. In 1987, he worked as a managing consultant where was teaching theory and practice of how business do quality and non-quality work. This research is were he started to do research on how to re-engineer corporations/ business process. This inspired his international best seller " Re-engineering the corporation". Later on he launched the managing consulting firm called Hammer and company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Michael is the founder and president of Hammer and Company, he established it as a research and business education firm.

He spent most of his time as a lecturer, consultant, Author. Articles written by Hammer have been published in business periodicals, such as the Harvard Business Review and The Economist. Some of his writings include:


 * The Re-engineering Revolution: A Handbook (1995)
 * Beyond Re-engineering: How the Process-centered Organization is Reshaping Our Work and Our Lives (1996).
 * "Re-engineering Revolution" was on the best seller list for 41 weeks.

Forbes magazine ranked Hammer's book, Re-engineering the Corporation, among the "three most important business books of the past 20 years"..TIME named him as one of America's 25 most influential individuals, in its first such list. Hammer started to highlight his ideas to many world leading companies such as Procter &Gamble, Xerox and American Standard. Hammer held seminars to thousands of people to inform them business re-engineering can benefit you and your business.

Business Process Re-engineering

BPR became really popular during the 1990s,due to many bussines struggleing to make profits due to competition, markets, and increase in modern technology. BPR the ability to redesign business processes by making critical improvements to the inner structure of the company like quality, cost, services, output, and efficiency. The main goal would be to cut down costs and improve processes to make things more efficient. Every organization is different in its own way, but following the 5 business RE-engineering steps can dramatically cut down expenses and improve quality and service across the board granting them competitive advantage with in the industry. The 5 BPR steps are:

Hammer was prescient on the radical redesign of business processes in order to keep up with modern technology and a rapidly changing economy. He believed in order to achieve success we first need to make improvements within the following categories: performance, cost, quality, service, and speed. In order for these improvements to occur things such as people, strategy, technology, resources, and goals all need to blend with each other. Companies started to allocate work and simplify supply chains which led to downsizing and improving service and quality. This leads to better performance and customer satisfaction due to an increase in the quality of their service/ product. His efforts and studies helped multiple companies to implement BPR to achieve goals beyond measure, increasing its attention to other companies to follow in their steps.
 * 1) define and analyze the current state of business processes
 * 2) determine the vision for the redesign
 * 3) Identify and redesign
 * 4) Design and run test on prototype
 * 5) implement/ monitor the new system changes and be mindful of dependencies
 * 6) establish performance measures

Hammer and Company
Michael launched Hammer and Company as a research and business education firm. The company focuses more on discovering major issues in business operations, organizations, management, process. Hammer being well-know for Business process re-engineering, he was able to redesign and reiterate how corporations should improve their process by incorporating Methodology like Lean and Six Sigma. This was done by measuring and managing them. Hammers contribution allowed corporations to achieve unparalleled and efficient improvements in their operating performance. Over a couple of years Hammer and CO was able to help multi companies capitalize on the power of process. His Ideas are still relevant today, it has embedded itself within business and organizations.

Some examples would be:

(1)"The Hammer Process Curriculum of Courses"

(2)"The Forum+Clinic Seminar Series"

(3)"The Phoenix Research Consortium"

After his death, Hammer and CO will continue to teach and persevere Michael's legacy of research, and innovative ideas. In order for future generations like new/raising business leaders to gain knowledge of his work and ideas. Hammer and CO services include mastery course, process workshops, coaching " based on the hammer model".They plan on building/ fine tuning Hammers contributions in this industry in the lines of process and operational transformation.

Michael Hammer Idea of Revolution
Hammer vision was not to fix anything but to restart, start from scratch, he believed that the re-engineering was misunderstood and misinterpreted. He Re-engineered the business process into a brand new structure designed to increase productivity and create more jobs among corporations. One of the ways that contributed to evolution of Business process were he redesigned the hierarchy of directors, managers, and workers. Hammer changed the traditional chain of command more into a collaborative relationship. This re-collaborated how managers would focus more on increase development of employees instead of supervising them. Hammers ideas allowed companies to make fundamental changes to their process and procedure. Which will overall increase their performance.

At the time, the Business model was old and outdated, Hammer was able to realize it needed to be integrated with the current economy. Hammer integrated the increased power of modern information technology. Which allowed multiple businesses to achieve some sufficient improvements to their productivity, lower cost, increase quality, better service. The new principle to this model was to encourage the Specialization of labor to an end to end processes, generally creating more value for the customer .Not only does it benefit the customer but it also will assist in escalating more job growth and production.

Death
Michael Martin Hammer was 60 years old when he died Wednesday suddenly from complications of a Brain Hemmorage he suffered while on vacation. The funeral for his death was held at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 5 in Stanislavsky memorial Chapel he is buried in the Baker Street Jewish Cemeteries in West Roxbury, Boston.