Business Process Reengineering: Breakpoint Strategies for Market Dominance

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Business Process Reengineering BreakPoint Strategies for Market Dominance Business Process Reengineering shows you how to take the vital next step to attain market dominance and become a world leader

A team of internationally recognized Coopers & Lybrand manufacturing consultants explain why they believe the business world needs to move beyond continuous improvement and TQM concepts to Business Process Reengineering (BPR).
BPR involves a dramatic redesign of business processes, organization structures and use of technology, to achieve "breakthroughs" in business competitiveness.
The book is based on the authors experience of extensive international work with leading corporationsincluding AT&T, Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), Allied-Signal, and Coca-Cola & Schweppes (CC&SB).
Focusing on the effectiveness of BPR, the book shows how companies can streamline operations, and inevitably cut costs, on the way to creating process excellence in all key aspects of the organization.

Reengineering goes beyond continuous improvement "Continuous improvement is exactly the right idea if you are the world leader it is probably a disastrous idea if you are far behind in the world standard we need rapid, quantum-leap improvement. We cannot be satisfied to lay out a plan that will move us towards the existing world standard over some protracted period of time if we accept such a plan; we will never be the world leader." Paul ONeill, Chairman ALCOA

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Practical Book On Re-Engineering.......2000-02-29

I am currently doing an assignment on business process re-engineering. Many of the texts I have read so far have been thick on the theories and the benefits of re-engineering. As such, it comes across as cheap propagnada.

This book was different. In the first chapter, unlike other texts, it did not simply insists that TQM and other continuous process improvements are of the past and are not good enough for today's business environment. It explains how TQM has its place, if you are already a market leader. However, if you are way below, then TQM will not allow you to reach the apex before you are out of business. Re-engineering is the way.

This immediately pave the way for the rest of the book. The authors are balanced in their views and do not simply advertise the merits of re-engineering. They also cautioned throughout the text on the difficulties and pitfalls of re-engineering. I found their arguments more convincing than most authors.

The examples throughout the book were taken from different industries and prove a source for ideas for any re-engineering effort. The authors came across as extremely experienced in their work.

I would have given it five stars except the last chapter on the human aspect of re-engineering was rather dissapointing. I had expected to learn more from the authors about the very difficult human resource issues in re-engineering. Like most texts, the book mentioned difficulties and dished out textbook solutions without real solutions.

Still, it was one of the best re-engineering texts I have read and I believe it will help me greatly in my assignment.

I also believe that it is extremely useful for any managers or CEOs who want to re-engineer their business. Hammer's classic on re-engineering is not enough. You need to read this book for the practical advice and guiding framework if you are to have any chance for success in re-engineering.

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Business Process Reengineering: Breakpoint Strategies for Market Dominance
Hank Johansson
Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000N65YFM

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If you're preparing compensation and incentive plans for your sales and customer service representatives, this is the book you've been waiting for. This new report on current industry conmpensation practices provides actual sales/CSR compensation plans used within the industry. Organized by type and range of compensation received, this sampling was collected from existing plans used by the surveyed U.S. and Canadian companies. Review the variety of model plans, apply them to your staffing needs, and bring your organization in line with others in the industry.

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A waste of time.......2006-10-25

This book contains weak, old examples of incentive plans that are used only in the printing industry. Save yourself money and get a MUCH better book: "The Complete Guide to Sales Force Incentive Compensation: How to Design And Implement Plans That Work".

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Advances in Plant Pathology is a new series designed to be flexible in its thorough coverage of the field. The volumes concentrate on ideas and interpretations and are controversial when appropriate. The audience is intended to be wide and diverse and to include undergraduates, graduate students, researchers, faculty, and research agronomists.

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This is a book on topology and geometry and, like any books on subjects as vast as these, it has a point-of-view that guided the selection of topics. Naber takes the view that the rekindled interest that mathematics and physics have shown in each other of late should be fostered and that this is best accomplished by allowing them to cohabit. The book weaves together rudimentary notions from the classical gauge theory of physics with the topological and geometrical concepts that became the mathemtical models of these notions. We ask the reader to come to us with some vague notion of what an electromagnetic field might be, a willingness to accept a few of the more elementary pronouncements of quantum mechanics, a solid background in real analysis and linear algebra and some of the vocabulary of modern algebra. To such a reader we offer an excursion that begins with the definition of a topological space and finds its way eventually to the moduli space of anti-self-dual SU(2) connections on S4 with instanton number -1.

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correction to dost.......2006-05-20

The review "Easy reading, complete proofs, plenty of exercises, October 29, 2005 by Rehan Dost is of the first volume, Foundations, not this volume which is Interactions. Naber's books are crafted to bridge physics, undergraduate mathematics and graduate mathematics. This is one more of his beautiful volumes in applied mathematics.

Easy reading, complete proofs, plenty of exercises.......2005-10-30

This text is by far the best introductory text marrying basic concepts of physics with pure mathematics.

Some background in the basic concepts of vector calculus, linear algebra, complex numbers and group theory is required.

The author begins by motivating the mathematics by the pursuit of finding a vector potential to represent a magnetic monopole. We see that the topology of R3-0 precludes such a vector potential from existing. We see here a simple example of how the topology of a space affects the physics associated with it.
The importance of the vector potential as something other than a convenient computational tool is highlighted by a reference to essential inclusion in quantum mechanics. Thus we NEED such a potential.

The author now asks whether there is a "trick" or device to get around this difficulty. The device are principal bundles and connections. For example the potentials noted above must keep track of the phase of a charged test particle as it moves thru the field of a magnetic monopole. We need a "bundle" of circles ( representing the phase at each point ) over S2 ( the author explains why we need only consider S2 instead of R3-0, briefly we need only keep track of 2 of the 3 spherical co-ordinates ).
Thus a curve in S2 thought of as the particles trajectory will have to be "lifted" to the bundle space by a lifting procedure called a connection.
In a more general setting elementary particles have an internal structure ( spin etc ) which becomes apparent during interactions although may not be apparent in uniform motion thru a vacuum. Since the phase of the particle does not alter the modulus when calculating probabilities these do not change. However, when the particles interact phase differences are important. We need to keep track of such phases as the particles interact.

Thus we need a "bundle" over a 4-manifold ( keeps track of the particles space-time path ) to keep track of such internal states. One sees we also need a group to transform states into one another ( usually incorporated into the bundle ). Connections then model physical phenomena which mediate changes in the internal states.
We see that some connections satisfy the Yang-Mills equations and using the appropriate equivalence relation form Moduli spaces.

Now that may seem like alot to digest with only a spattering of mathematical maturity.

The beauty of the book is that the author starts from FIRST principles.

Chapter 1 introduces topological concepts of topology, continuity, quotient topology, projective spaces, compactness, connectivity, covering spaces and topological groups.

Chapter 2 introduces concepts of path lifting, fundamental groups, contractability, simple connectedness, covering homotopy theorem, higher homotopy groups

Chapter 3 introduces principle bundles, transition functions, bundle maps and principle bundles over spheres.

Chapter 4 introduces manifolds, derivatives on manifolds, tangent/cotangent spaces, submanifolds, vector fields, matrix lie groups, vector valued 1- forms, 2 forms and Riemann metrics

Chapter 5 gets to some physics with gauge fields and connections, curvature, Yang-Mills functional, moduli spaces, Hodge dual , matter fields and covariant derivatives.

At each step the author carefully provides complete proofs and easy exercises to ensure understanding.

It was a pleasure to read the book and complete the exercises. At no point did I feel frustration or boredom.

Don't waste your money.......2004-08-27

This review refers only to the book printing quality not to the contents.

I had purchased some books from Springer in the past (Like Arnold Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, Lang Algebra etc..) and found them beautifully edited: good binding, paper etc..

And to my surprise I was very disappointed with the overall quality of this book, poor binding -glued instead of sewn- bad quality paper -forming waves at the binding spine, etc..

You pay for a quality item, a book you can use for years, and you get a hardbound crap that you can not left open in a table without holding it tight risking to lose the pages after a few days of use in the process.

I find this unacceptable in books costing 60$+. Sadly I find this to occur very often, publishers should be more careful with their printings and custumers should demand a better quality.

Don't waste your money.

A reader.

MATH AND TOPOLOGY.......2001-05-08

Topology is very important scince in the fields of mathematics. And it using in many of another sinceis.

required reading for a topologist interested in physics.......2000-05-14

As a mathematician turned physics grad student, it is often difficult to read "Math for Physicists" books simply because of the focus on making "numbers churn out;" which, at least for me personally, more difficult to get a handle on the subject and then, in turn, use it fruitfully.

This book on the other hand, is exemplary of why I got into physics in the first place. The first chapter (Physical motivations) and the last chapter (Gauge Fields and Instantons) can be read by any one with undergraduate topology under their belt and come away with a more powerful understanding of gauge theory than, in my opinion, can be found in other introductory gauge theory texts I've been directed to.

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Theoretical physicists tend to discuss their theories in the language of mathematics. However, the adequate mathematical formulation may not yet be available when the physical law is first discovered. Mathematical physicists trying to develop the relevant mathematics for these theories, may obtain new insights into old mathematical structures or may even disclose entirely new structures. Gauge Theory is such a gift from physics to mathematics. This volume presents a self-contained development of a differential geometric formulation of gauge theories, in particular, the theory of Yang-Mills fields.

The book is aimed at advanced graduate students and research workers in theoretical physics and pure and applied mathematics who are acquainted with the elements of the theory of differential manifolds. It enables the reader to apply this theory to gauge theories and to understand the role of gauge theories in high energy physics, gravitation t

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