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Purpose and benefits

James Champy was the thinker behind ‘re-engineering’, the management phenomenon of the early 1990s, and joint author of the best-selling book, "Reengineering the Corporation" . As conceived by Champy and his co-author Michael Hammer, re-engineering was more than a mere slimming down of processes: it was an all-embracing recipe for corporate revolution. In practice, however, this often proved difficult to implement, and re-engineering was used by many companies simply as an excuse for downsizing.