"America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth. We need something entirely different"
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p. 30; cited in: Huey B. Long (1995), New Dimensions in Self-Directed Learning, p. 323
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Michael Hammer
(13 April 1948 – 3 Sept 2008) was an American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), known as one of the founders of the management theory of Business process reengineering (BPR).
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