Hammer, Michael

Hammer, Michael, A B Spurdle, T Karafet, M R Bonner, E T Wood, A NoveUetto, P Malaspina, R J Michell, S Horai, T Jenkins, S L Zegura The geographic distribution of human Y chromosome variation. Genetics 1997, Mar 145(3) 787-805... 

Hammer, Michael, T Karafet, A Rasanayagam, E T Wood, T K Altheide, T Jenkins, R C Griffiths, A R Templeton S L Zegura Out of Africa and back again nested cladistic analysis of human Y chromosome variation Mol Biol Evol 1998 Apr, 15(4) 427-441... 

Hammer, Michael, Deep change how operational innovation can transform your company. Harvard Business Review, April 2004, pp. 84—93-Harbison, John R. and Pekar, Peter, Smart Alliances A Practical Guide to Repeat-able Success, San Francisco Jossey-Bass, 1S>98. 

Reengineering the Corporation was written by James Champy and Michael Hammer and published in 1993. And for some time reengineering was a prominently adopted fad. The authors proposed a method of reorganizing business around processes rather than around the traditional functions of marketing, selling, and so on. 

Micklethwait and Wooldridge also say that By late 1994 even Michael Hammer and James Campy were admitting that many attempts at reengineering were falling short (p. 31). 

Champy, James and Michael Hammer. Reengineering the Corporation. London Nicholas Brealey, 1993. 

Fast service Progressive Insurance, as described by Michael Hammer, has innovated its auto claims processing processes to speedily process claims in order to retain customers. ... 

The quotation above provides reengineering expert Michael Hammer s view of the need for operational improvement. Certainly, these operational improvements include supply chain processes, and our own observation would support Hammer s position that creativity and execution are indeed lacking. One obstacle is the inability to look beyond budgetary cost controls to link supply chain operations with the strategies we use to improve competitive position. The purpose of this chapter is to describe assessment tools to make these links. We cover three types of assessment tool, each of which has a dedicated section in this chapter ... 

I am grateful for the support of my colleagues Allan Nishimura, David Marten, Stephen Contakes, Kristi Lazar, Carrie Hill, and Heidi Henes-Vanbergen, who have supported me in my department while 1 worked on this book. 1 am particularly grateful to Allan, who started me on this whole chemistry business— he remains an inspiration in my life. I am also grateful to Brittany Hammer, who helped me with manuscript preparation, and to Andrew Schwemmer, Ryan Fields, and Michael Tro who helped to review end-of-chapter problems for accuracy. 

Lou Dubose Jan Reid, The Hammer 171 (2004) (DeLay quote) Jeffrey H. Birn-baum, The Thursday Regulars, Time, March 27, 1995, at 50 Gareth Cook, Laws for Sale, Washington Monthly, July, 1995, at 44 Peter H. Slone, Taking Gare of Business, 28 Nat. J. 462 (1996) David Maraniss Michael Weisskopf, Speaker and His Directors... 

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