Michael Hammer Summary

In Chapter 5 Mike Rose starts working with the Urban Teacher Corps in East Los Angeles. Of all the chapters I read from this book, I found chapter 5 as one of my favorites. Rose provides us with a look into the academic and personal lives of his students. He integrates pictures and music with his teaching methodology to get his kids to think creatively. And of course, it helps him to understand their lives and complications better. I really enjoyed reading about his idea of taking photos of the kids and let them write about what they see in those photos. Their answers show how they see life. I think Rose tries to show us that education is more complicated than just teaching the syllabus. He seems to be more enduring with his student’s like

Mike Rose had a difficult experience when his test scores got mixed up with another student named Rose. The Rose whose score that he got did not do well, so he got sent to vocational school for two years. He describes his experience during this time and the people and teachers that he meets. He illustrates how the teachers do not really take an interest in actually teaching the students or making sure that they learn the material they are trying to get across. Along with the teachers not caring, more than half the time the students would not even care for what the teachers have to say because they have their minds on anything other than learning. Rose found himself getting the same learning habits as his fellow students in vocational classes.

The main character of the story fantasy league is a twelve year old boy named Charlie gaines. This book was written by mike lupica. this boy is a very caring and loving young boy. He is very intelligent. He is very observant and very quick on picking plays up.He shows and helps many people like the football coach. The coach is the nfl coach for the los angeles bulldogs.

2. Amir Bonakdar, T. W. (2013). Transformative Influence of Business Processes on the Business Model: Classifying the State of the Practice in the Software Industry. Hawaii: Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

These processes are not performed in isolation. The end result relies heavily on the satisfactory completion of all processes and the communication of all functional areas involved. By viewing these processes as a whole, management can identify process inefficiencies. These inefficiencies may include delays or queuing at process bottlenecks, lack of control or checking, or places responsibility for process activities is not clear.

July 2, 1863, first starts with the chaptered named Fremantle, an English trader that came across the confederate army. Fremantle is very traditional when it comes to the English society and really likes to be apart of the army but really doesn't understand what is happening. As I first started reading page 155 I immediately made a self connection. Fremantle states “he could sense the red battle forming today,coming like the sun. His senses shocked him awake.” I can relate this to my own life. When a big event is coming up sleeping doesn't come easy and my excitement and anxiousness wakes me up. I could only imagine how he is feeling to watch another battle. One reason I do enjoy this book is that it is still fiction but Michael Shaara adds comical conversation between

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As the new CIO of Volkswagen of America (VWoA), Dr. Uwe Matulovic brings an impressive resume that includes ample experience in aligning business process management (BPM), business process re-engineering (BPR) and the insights necessary to create the Business Process Technology Organization (BPTO). As the IT projects within VWoA have lacked governance and are facing a severe budget shortfall of $150M, Dr. Matulovic has a formidable challenge. He must first align all existing IT projects to strategic initiatives, which is the essence of effective IT governance (Huang, Zmud, Price, 2010) and then he must define processes to stabilize these strategies yet ensure integration still occurs at the process and system level (Korac-Kakabadse, Kakabadse, 2001). All of these factors need to be taken into account as VWoA is evaluating up to 22 new models with will have an exponential, nearly chaotic impact on their existing IT systems and their ability to respond. Further, the VWoA business has continued to suffer from a lack of unified focus of IT spending to overall strategic initiatives. This lack of governance has created a process of defining IT priorities more defined by the persuasive ability of managers, their ability to build compelling Return on Investment (ROI) arguments, and

allow business to change its processes. In this case Business rules paradigm can be used

Industry leaders utilize standard work to implement the automation of a particular process (Lu & Yang, 2014). Lu and Yang (2014) noted that organizational managers created the

Ben 's Omnicrons Pty Ltd is a company with a highly functional organizational structure. The managers and employees of six different departments are focusing too narrowly on their own tasks, performing them in isolation without comprehending previous and subsequent steps outside their functional “silos”, therefore losing the sight of the whole picture of the larger business process (Magal & Word, 2009). Lack of sufficient communication leads to lack of consideration of workers from each functional group to their consequences for the other components of the process. The company had never put much effort and time into developing streamlined, computer-based and IT utilized business process. The overwhelming reliance on paper-based manual methods to get things done has resulted in the insufficient coordination of the whole value chain.

Enterprise Process Maturity plays an important role in identifying if the company’s business processes are “capable of delivering higher performance over time.” According to the Process and Enterprise Maturity Model developed by Dr. Michael Hammer, two characteristics namely, process enablers and enterprise capabilities are critical in this prospect. Process enablers are considered to be capable of determining “how well the process is able to function over time.” On the other hand, enterprise capabilities focus on attributes related to the entire organization to gauge the performance level of the company as a whole. Process enablers are measured in terms of the specification details on the

In the book Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution, Michael Hammer and James Champy discuss a concept that he originated known as “reengineering”. The process of reengineering involves coming up with new ideas, specifically processes, which are technologically advanced and extremely effective in completing corporate work. Companies must think ahead so that they will not only succeed today, but also set the rules for future business. A critical part of reengineering involves ignoring the current procedures and structures that have been set by a company and replacing them with more efficient processes. In creating these new processes, companies must focus on the needs and wants of consumers. This will ensure customer satisfaction, which is a key part of maintaining a competitive advantage in today’s world.

Process improvement is a fundamental to business management.  If you run an operation (and all businesses do, one way or another) you are reliant on two things:

Michael Hammer is the pioneer of the concept of BPR during 1990’s. They define BPR as “the fundamental rethinking and radical redesigning of business process to achieve dramatic improvement in critical contemporary measures of performance, such as cost, quality, services, and speed”. Homeas H. Davenpoirt who is the American academician and familiar in the area of business strategy defines BPR as “encompasses the envisioning of new work strategies, the actual process design activity, and the implementation of the changes in all its complex technological, human, and organizational diminutions”.