Larger task forces have been or will soon be working on larger systems, Mr. Dickson said. Professor Bruce, a member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and former associate dean of engineering and director of the Industrial Liaison Program, said two words provide the most useful definition of reengineering. That is the definition, he said, favored by Dr. Michael Hammer, a former MIT faculty member, who is the originator and leading exponent of the concept of reengineering and the founder of the reengineering movement. It is about rejecting the conventional wisdom and received assumptions of the past. Reengineering is the search for new models of organizing work.
Tradition counts for nothing.
Reengineering is a new beginning. Unless we change these rules, we are merely rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We cannot achieve breakthroughs in performance by cutting fat or automating existing processes. Pamela A. Phillips Joined MIT in 1981 has served as administrative officer in Division of Comparative Medicine, Department of Economics and now Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences member of the Administrative Advisory Committee since 1989, chair since 1990 involved with task force projects initiated to look at cost containment at MIT, serving on the Administrative Computing Task Force in 1993. Shirley M. Picardi Joined MIT in 1976 as an industrial liaison officer and assistant director of industrial liaison has been bursar since 1985, responsible for 9,500 student accounts, for educational loans and loan counseling sessions from 1981-85, Alumni Association secretary in 1981 served as special assistant to vice president for resource development.