The late Dr. Michael HammerThe man at the front of the Reengineering movement passed away suddenly last week. It is difficult to overstate the impact that he has had on the way the modern corporation operates or the way businesspeople think about their responsibilities. His central premise, that organizations should reconsider not only their business processes but also their fundamental architectures, resonated with leaders who found themselves trying to manage organizations that had evolved from 19th century models or, worse, had been cobbled together by merger and acquisition.In a new world of more abundant capital, deregulated markets, freer trade and, most especially, inexpensive
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James P. Farrell, management consultant and economistA Management Consultant @ Large has become the primary publisher of commentary and analysis of James P. Farrell. Many of our articles are featured on major online media, including Reuters and the Chicago Sun-Times.Mr. Farrell's work has been published in the mainstream media and in the intellectual capital of firms that employed him as well. Recent articles include:Mastering Innovation Management: Collaborating for Speed and Profit is an AT Kearney white paper, written by Mr. Farrell, that expands on a discussion by a forum of experts he organized on the topicKeeping Track of Promotion Progress: How Marketing Will Become the Greatest
James P. Farrell, Management Consultant @ LargeJim Farrell is President of JP Farrell & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm. He has been a practicing consultant for 20 years, having served at the partner and principal levels in the supply chain and consumer products practices of firms that have done groundbreaking work in those fields, including A.T. Kearney, Cleveland Consulting Associates and Adjoined Consulting. Case studies that describe some of the projects he has developed and managed can be found here.Prior to embarking on a consulting career, Mr. Farrell served the executive teams of two leading transportation companies, Schneider National and IU International. He
Roger KallockSometimes an organization continues to live long after its charter has expired. Cleveland Consulting Associates (CCA) gave up its name to CSC, its current owner, in 1995. However, to the first generation of supply chain strategists and their clients CCA remains a name packed with meaning.Founded in 1974 by consultants Jim Spira, Roger Kallock, Jim Blaser and Keith Helferich, CCA took a rigorous and comprehensive approach to operations analysis, featuring advanced decision-support modeling in its consulting process. Spira, Kallock and Blaser, all in their early thirties, came to the firm with prior consulting and operations experience from such places as A.T. Kearney, Ernst
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