#BPR

Business process reengineering tears down and rebuilds core workflows from scratch to eliminate waste and drive measurable gains. Michael Hammer introduced the concept in his 1990 Harvard Business Review article and Ford famously proved it by cutting accounts payable staff 75 percent.

Business process redesign means rethinking how work flows through your organization from scratch. Michael Hammer pioneered BPR in the 1990s and roughly 60 percent of Fortune 500 companies adopted it.