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- verb Present participle of
reengineer . - noun The application of
technology and management science to themodification of existingsystems ,organizations ,processes andproducts in order to make them moreeffective ,efficient andresponsive .
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Examples
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Today, reengineering is a continual process for us, not a project.
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You can explain to somebody the difference between "reengineering"
January 20th, 2006 curufea 2006
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With that other business buzz word (the dreaded "reengineering") still making the rounds at U.S. companies, benchmarking is a practice that every purchaser will want to review again.
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He notes that this "reengineering" is already possible because "the technologies are already available from public and private sources," and explicitly calls for a merger of the NSA with private industry to create a sprawling, omnipotent network for monitoring the Internet:
Politics Glenn Greenwald 2010
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With that other business buzz word (the dreaded "reengineering") still making the rounds at U.S. companies, benchmarking is a practice that every purchaser will want to review again.
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Another unique deal was a global publisher and information provider where we are going to commence with FMA, but are looking at many other areas of growth such as reengineering, analytic and IGO.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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"reengineering" swept through the nation's boardrooms and business operations leaving in its wake a purchasing function that is -- well -- not very different from before, at least for many companies., author Ben Laaper, director of materials & purchasing for Accuride Corporation in Henderson, Ky., examines the traditional procurement process and all its bureaucratic trappings.
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The commitment and flexibility of our civil servants aligned with the Office†™ s belief and investment in its people has created a team of over 100 IT Professionals working on the Offices†™ Statistical Computing Projects such as reengineering the UK National Accounting systems, delivering the new Statistics Hub web presence and new migration systems. "
PublicTechnology.net 2009
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They're reengineering their bodies and environments to make it possible for human societies to spread far beyond Earth.
Archive 2009-09-01 Lou Anders 2009
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As the threat of global warming grows more urgent, a few scientists are considering radical — and possibly extremely dangerous — schemes for reengineering the climate by brute force.
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