The new ISE: Integrating people, strategy, process, information and technology

Making sense of messy realities requires industrial & systems engineering skills

By D. Scott Sink, Ben Amaba and Jared Frederici

In July 1990, Thomas H. Davenport and James E. Short, both sociologists interested in business process reengineering, published an article in Sloan Management Review titled, “The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process Redesign.” It was seminal, painting a picture of what they envisioned and has been transpiring for the past 30 years. We will update those perspectives and points of views to paint an updated picture of what is evolving today.


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