James A. Champy

James "Jim" A. Champy (born 1942 in Lawrence , Massachusetts ) is an American economist. He is considered a leading American management thought leader in the areas of business reengineering ( business process optimization ), organizational change and company restructuring . He advises the top management of multinational companies looking for ways to improve corporate performance. His consulting approach is based on helping executives improve business results in four different but overlapping areas: corporate strategy , leadership and business processes , organizational development and change, and information technology .

Life

Studies and PhD

In 1959 he began studying architecture at the MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology . But soon changed Champy - not least with a view of his father's construction company - the course and acquires both a bachelor - and a master's degree as a civil engineer . Champy's father ran a construction company in Lawrence. Champy initially studied architecture at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1959, but then switched to civil engineering and earned a BS in 1963 and an MS in civil engineering in 1965 at MIT. In 1968 he studied by his own admission to Horizonterweiterung law , a PhD in this field ( JD ) at the Boston College Law School and acquired the license to practice law .

Founder, manager and chairman of the board

Back in Lawrence and in his father's company, he noticed despite studies lack of knowledge of practical business management and followed the call of his former MIT classmates Tom Gerrity to 1,969 with him, two other MIT graduates and 1,500 USD starting capital the Consulting - Agency to establish index system . After the death of his father, he takes care of running the parental business.

In 1974, Champy returned to MIT. He becomes a lecturer , alumni manager and publisher of the university newspaper . Index keeps growing. Champy becomes Index vice president in 1978 at Gerrity's request . Index achieved sales of more than USD 200 million. In 1988, Index was taken over by the IT consulting and services company Computer Sciences Corporation . Champy becomes Chairman and CEO of CSC Index. In 1992, Champy published the book Business Reengineering (see below) together with MIT professor Michael Hammer , which had a positive effect on CSC sales within a short period of time, which rose from 70 million to more than 500 million USD. After the CSC Index lost its entrepreneurial independence through a merger in 1996 , Champy left the company and took over as Chairman (until 2010) also the management of the consulting area (until November 2009) of Perot Systems , an international IT service provider (later Dell Service ). Since May 19, 2003, Champy has been Director and Member of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee at the semiconductor manufacturer Analog Devices Inc.

Champy is currently run by Forbes as a research fellow at Harvard Business School .

Reengineering thought leader and author of the bestseller Business Reengineering

As a leading man, Champy developed the so-called reegineering concept, which was particularly popular in the 1990s, and published the bestseller Business Reengineering together with Michael Hammer . As a professor at MIT, Hammer developed the theoretical foundations on the basis of his studies on new technologies in corporate work processes (1984–1989: “Management in the 1990s”). Business Reengineering appears in 15 languages, has been on the New York Times bestseller list for more than a year and becomes a global success. More than 2.5 million copies are sold (2007). The business magazine Forbes rated it as one of the three most important management books of the last decade.

With their book, the authors have contributed to the fact that the reengineering concept was not only understood to streamline internal business processes, but also as a “comprehensive recipe for the revolutionary restructuring of companies”. The only important thing is to optimally shape the future and “to throw conventional wisdom and traditional assumptions about the past overboard,” says Champy. “Start with a clean sheet of paper” is Champy's reengineering credo: “It is time for us to stop going the well-trodden paths. Instead of embedding outdated processes in silicon and software , we should eliminate them and start over. ”Champy's concept is diametrically opposed to the Japanese model of continuous improvement .

The aim of the concept is to significantly improve the cost structure, quality , service and speed in order to improve overall company performance. Organizations should concentrate on their core processes, first analyze them fundamentally, then design them as lean and efficient as possible and separate from peripheral processes (and their employees). All processes of an organization are to be included in the radical reorganization , especially the management, which Champy identified as a major obstacle to the reengineering. Champy therefore summed up "that it is time for the reengineering of the managers". He concludes that "business reengineering without a radical change in actual management practices is tantamount to introducing a free market economy in a communist -led economic order in which the old guard continues to cling to power." The practical implementation of his concept is considered very difficult. It is criticized that the concept ignores the previous corporate development and already appears technocratic and inhuman. Many companies used the concept for extensive downsizing measures under the guise of reengineering .

more books

Champy is co-author of the book Reengineering the Corporation , which made it onto the New York Times bestseller list. His next book, Reengineering Management , also became a bestseller and was named one of the best books of 1995 by Business Week . Champy wrote his next book, The Arc of Ambition , with Harvard professor Nitin Nohria. Champy also worked with Nohria on Fast Forward , a collection of major Harvard Business Review articles on change; it was released in March 1996. His next book, X-Engineering the Corporation, Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age , was published in 2002. In this work, Champy shows the opportunities and challenges of cross-organizational process design and collaboration. In 2008, Champy's book Outsmart! How To Do What Your Competitors Can't published. Outsmart! covers numerous surprising and unconventional experiences from companies that have achieved extraordinarily high growth rates through new or changed business models. The second book Inspire! Why Customers Come Back features eight short case studies that show how companies become successful when they inspire their customers to stay with them for a long time. The examples show creative ideas and examine how companies can directly influence sales success with their vision and mission statement. Outsmart! and Inspire! are both part of a series of new business models management books that Champy writes for Financial Times Press. His third book in the series is Deliver! How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal. be. Champy's book Reengineering Health Care, A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery , was also published by Financial Times Press in June 2010.

Published	title
1992	Business reengineering
1994	Reengineering the Corporation
1995	Reengineering Management
1996	Fast forward
2001	The Arc of Ambition
2002	X-Engineering the Corporation, Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age
2008	Outsmart! How To Do What Your Competitors Can't
2009	Inspire! Why Customers Come Back
2010	Reengineering Health Care, A Manifesto for Radically Rethinking Health Care Delivery
2011	Deliver! How to Be Fast, Flawless, and Frugal

Others

Champy is a lifelong board member of MIT Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's and serves on the board of directors of Boston College Law School.

See also

• Re-engineering
• Business process
• Business process optimization
• Michael Hammer

Web links

• Literature by and about James Champy in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of James A. Champy

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The most important management thinkers (PDF; 70 kB) Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek, Volume 03, p. 33. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2013. 
2. ↑ The most important management thinkers (PDF; 70 kB) Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek, Volume 03, p. 33. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2013. 
3. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, pp. 24–27 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
4. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, pp. 24–27 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
5. ↑ The most important management thinkers (PDF; 70 kB) Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek, Volume 03, p. 33. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2013. 
6. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, pp. 24–27 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
7. ^ ^{A b} The Best States In America For Business . Forbes.com LLC. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
8. ^ Company Overview of Perot Systems Corporation - Executive Profile James A. Champy . Bloomberg Business Week. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
9. ↑ The most important management thinkers (PDF; 70 kB) Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek, Volume 03, pp. 33–35. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2013. 
10. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, p. 25 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
11. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, p. 26 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
12. ↑ The business revolutionary - JAMES CHAMPY IN THE MANAGEMENT-VORDENKER SERIES, managerSeminare, issue 113, August 2007, p. 26 . Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Schwuchow. Retrieved January 13, 2013.
13. ↑ The most important management thinkers (PDF; 70 kB) Handelsblatt Management Bibliothek, Volume 03, pp. 33–35. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 13, 2013.