Beyond Business Process Reengineering

Download or read book Beyond Business Process Reengineering written by Patrick McHugh and published by . This book was released on 1995-02-21 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holonic networks give businesses the agility to rapidly change product and service capabilities to meet rapidly changing market demands, offering the following advantages: leverage, speed, flexibility, fast growth and high profits, sustainable customers, reduced capital requirement, and quick failure recognition. In this book, the authors describe how holonic networks and the virtual companies within them have been implemented in businesses as diverse as Ford, Hewlett Packard, Benetton and R Griggs, the company that makes Doc Marten shoes. Beyond Business Process Reengineering provides a thought provoking and practical examination of business today. For everyone in business being pulled through competition, technological change and their own reengineering efforts, it provides a new and radical alternative to downsizing, restructuring, cost reduction and strategic repositioning.