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The crisis that will not go away -- Reengineering : the path to change -- Rethinking business processes -- The new world of work -- The enabling role of information technology -- Who will reengineer? -- The hunt for reengineering opportunities -- The experience of process redesign -- Embarking on reengineering -- One company's experience : Hallmark -- One company's experience : Taco Bell -- One company's experience : Capital Holding -- One company's experience : Bell Atlantic -- Succeeding at reengineering. The key to reengineering is abandoning the most basic notions on which the modern organization is founded, and the authors introduce the notion of process orientation, of concentrating on and rethinking end-to-end activities that create value for customers.