Michael Hammer

Dr. Michael Hammer is the driving force behind the business process revolution. He is the originator of both reengineering and the process enterprise, concepts that have changed forever how businesses around the world do business. Thousands of companies have turned his ideas into practice and profit.

Michael Hammer is the author of four books, including the international best-seller Reengineering the Corporation, which Forbes ranked as one of the three most important business books of the past twenty years. His latest book is The Agenda: What Every Business Must Do to Dominate the Decade. His articles have appeared in periodicals from Harvard Business Review to The Economist, and his work has been featured in every major business publication.

An engineer by training, Dr. Hammer's research and teachings focus on how to transform business operations; his work is relentlessly pragmatic and immediately applicable. Dr. Hammer was for many years a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he is currently a visiting Professor at MIT and a Fellow at Oxford University. He is a founder of several high-technology companies, and he was named by Time as one of America's twenty-five most influential individuals.