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# Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution

A **1993 book** by [[entity-michael-hammer|Michael Hammer]] and James Champy that popularized business process reengineering, while also somberly noting the high failure rate of such initiatives — the source of the [[claim-failure-rate-reengineering|50–70% reengineering failure]] figure. (entityType is 'other' as the closest match for a publication.) Reviews and secondary summaries regularly repeat the 50–70% range, treating it as Hammer's practitioner estimate rather than a formal meta-analysis.