Michael Martin Hammer

Michael Martin Hammer
Born(1948-04-13)April 13, 1948
Annapolis, Maryland
DiedSeptember 3, 2008(2008-09-03) (aged 60)
Known forBusiness process reengineering
ChildrenJessica Hammer
Academic background
Alma materMassachusetts Institute of Technology
Academic work
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Michael Martin Hammer (April 13, 1948 – September 3, 2008) was born in Annapolis, Maryland. Hammer was a Jewish-American engineer, management author, and a former professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Hammer and James A. Champy founded the management theory of business process reengineering (BPR). They wrote Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution in 1993.