Quotes on Business Process Reengineering

Quotes on Business Process Reengineering

Do you know some deep, famous or funny quotes on Business Process Reengineering? Quotations? Proverbs? Please share them as a reaction to this posting and mention the author. To get started, here's my favorite:
'Reengineering must be fundamental, radical and drastic.'
Michael Hammer & James Champy 1993, American management consultants.

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BPR Acronym

For some employees in the organisation, BPR stands for: Blood Pressure Raiser. For others it means: Blood Pressure Reliever. :-).

Jaap de Jonge
Editor, Netherlands

History and Background of the Dilbert Comic Strip

@Anonymous: One should never explain a joke😃. But Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams. It was published for the first time on April 16, 1989. The strip is known for its satirical office and management humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office. Engineer Dilbert is its title character. The strip appeared in many newspapers and spawned dozens of books and a television series. In 1997 Adams received the National Cartoonists Society Reuben Award and the Newspaper Comic Strip Award.
In the early days, the comic strip focused on Dilbert and his "pet" dog Dogbert in their home. Early plots revolved around Dilbert's engineer nature, his strange inventions and Dogbert's megalomaniacal ambitions. Later on, most of the action moved to Dilbert's workplace (in Silicon Valley) and the strip started to satirize technology, workplace, and company issues.
This workplace setting increased the comic strip's popularity a lot, probably because it was quite familiar to a large and appreciative audience. Adams said himself that switching the setting from Dilbert's home to his office a main reason behind its success: "When Dilbert launched in newspapers, the response was underwhelming. In the early years, it wasn't a workplace strip. It was about Dilbert's life in general. He just happened to have a job. I was surprised to learn, via my e-mail, that readers loved the relatively rare comics featuring Dilbert in the office. Personally, I didn't think those were my best work. My ego told me to do it my way. My readers told me I was wrong." (The Dilbert Blog, July 23, 2007).