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The Annual
Charles L. Miller Lecture
In
Charlie’s Vision: The Future of Engineering at MIT
By James
Champy
Chairman of Consulting, Perot Systems Corporation
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poster (.pdf).
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(PowerPoint document).
About
the Lecture:
In the 1960’s, Charlie Miller – the honoree
of this lecture - introduced a new vision for Civil Engineering
at MIT. The vision involved the aggressive application of
developing information technologies and an approach of systems
thinking to the multiple disciplines of the profession.
This thinking was also embraced by other departments of
MIT’s School of Engineering, helping to maintain the
School’s preeminent position.
Today,
advances in science demand a re-look at engineering at MIT,
with the same boldness of Charlie’s vision. The problems
and opportunities in which the School is engaged also demand
an increased level of inter-departmental collaboration,
raising questions of the content of disciplines and how
the work of departments should be defined.
This
year’s Miller Lecture will examine these issues and
present a point of view of what MIT must do to maintain
the School of Engineering’s distinctiveness and pre-eminence.
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here to view a PDF
of the promotional poster.
About
James A. Champy:
 James
A. Champy is chairman of Perot Systems’ consulting
practice and also head of strategy for the company. He is
responsible for providing direction and guidance to the
company's team of business and management consultants.
Mr.
Champy is a leading authority on the management issues surrounding
business reengineering, organizational change and corporate
renewal. He consults extensively with senior-level executives
of multinational companies seeking to improve business performance.
His approach centers on helping leaders achieve business
results through four distinct, yet overlapping areas --
business strategy, management and operations, organizational
development and change, and information technology.
Prior
to joining Perot Systems, Mr. Champy was Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer of CSC Index, the management consulting
arm of Computer Science Corporation. He was one of the original
founders of Index, a $200 million consulting practice that
was acquired by CSC in 1988. Under Mr. Champy's aegis, the
company's consulting practice grew at a rate of 25% a year.
He
is recognized worldwide for his reengineering and change
management insight. He is co-author of Reengineering
the Corporation, a best-seller which sold
more than two million copies and was on the New York
Times best-seller list for more than a year; it has
been translated into 17 languages. His follow-up book, Reengineering
Management, is also a best-seller and was
recognized by Business Week as one of the best
business books of 1995. He coauthored, with Harvard Business
School Professor Nitin Nohria, The Arc of Ambition.
Mr. Champy also collaborated with Professor Nohria for the
book Fast Forward, which is a
compilation of significant Harvard Business Review
articles on change; it was published in March 1996.
Mr.
Champy also wrote X-engineering the Corporation,
Reinventing Your Business in the Digital Age.
In this work, Mr. Champy takes up the opportunity and challenge
for cross-organizational process design and collaboration.
Mr.
Champy has moderated programs for the PBS Business Channel
and he has also been a guest on Wall Street Week with
Louis Rukeyser. His columns on management have appeared
in ComputerWorld, Sales & Marketing Management,
and Forbes magazine.
Mr.
Champy received both his bachelor's and master's degree
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his law
degree from Boston College Law School. He is a life member
of the MIT Corporation, the school's board of trustees,
and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Boston College
Law School. He also serves on the Board of Analog Devices,
Inc., a world leader in high performance signal processing
solutions, based in Norwood, MA.
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