If you've gotten the message that reengineering is an exercise designed to create profound change, you've gotten the message. If you know from experience that buying a medical group and tacking it onto a hospital or insurance company doesn't create the results you want, you may be starting to understand the importance of reengineering. It isn't easy, but we can't see an alternative. Traditional components of our industry are all on the endangered species list. To us this means making changes in our business processes that are fundamental, radical, dramatic, and process-focused. It means that reengineering must become a way of life.
如果你已经得到了这样的信息,即再造工程是一项旨在创造深远变革的活动,那么你就已经明白了这一点。如果你从经验中知道,收购一个医疗集团并将其附加到医院或保险公司上并不会产生你想要的结果,那么你可能开始理解再造工程的重要性了。这并不容易,但我们看不到其他选择。我们行业的传统组成部分都在濒危物种名单上。对我们来说,这意味着要对我们的业务流程进行根本性、激进性、戏剧性且以流程为重点的变革。这意味着再造工程必须成为一种生活方式。