Rodent Regatta

There’s a science associated with designing business processes. There’s a similar science associated with re-engineering business processes. And, there’s an old question that bounces around the groups of people who do this sort of work: ”How can you re-engineer something that wasn’t engineered in the first place?” What an incredibly complex job it will be to blend these two cultures which have such radically different roots.

Hewlett’s Man for the Merger Details. Webb McKinney, a 32-year veteran of Hewlett-Packard, is expected to lead the team that plans how the company and Compaq would fit together. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business]