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In this age of management turmoil and turnover, strategic consultants peddle reengineering as the science of success. But technology doesn't trump talent, and no science can lock in winning results 100% of the time.

Fast Company has grappled with reengineering since its first issue -- covering those who conceived it, implemented it, and got it terribly wrong. Is this the fad that forgot people? Or the future religion of Silicon Valley? Or neither? You be the judge.

November 1995

The Fad That Forgot People

Reengineering didn't start out as a code word for mindless bloodshed. It wasn't supposed to be the last gasp of Industrial Age management. I know because I was there from the beginning. I was one of the "creators." Thomas H. Davenport

November 1995

The People Are the Company

How to build your business around your people. John Seely Brown and Estee Solomon Gray

August 1996

The More Things Transform, the More They Stay the Same

Three books purport to take us beyond Radical Change, past Reengineering, further than Growth -- and on to Transformation! With so much transformation going on, how could they be so much the same? Fast Company

April 1997

Change

Change: Few can do it. Few can sustain it. Few can survive it. Charles Fishman

April 1998

Andrew Cuomo, Turnaround CEO

The HUD secretary is borrowing ideas from business to reinvent one of Washington's most maligned agencies. Ronald Brownstein

February 1999

How Digital Is Your Company?

Forget about the e-hype. Going digital -- converting from atoms to bits -- gives your company a competitive edge, but only if you focus on the basics: money, talent, customers, and time. Adrian Slywotzky

February 1999

Are You on Digital Time?

Nearly 10 years ago, George Stalk Jr. literally wrote the book on how companies can compete on speed. Today, he says, time is still the ultimate competitive weapon -- but by going digital, you can make your company even faster and even more competitive. Alan M. Webber

November 1999

Only the Pronoid Survive

Forget Andy Grove's famous saying about the power of paranoia. Neo-Darwinist Helena Cronin says that competition today favors the generous. Harriet Rubin

December 1999

20/20 Change Agent

A four-point plan for bringing clarity to change. Bill Breen and Cheryl Dahle

February 2001