(a) Name of class: CIED 1003: Technology in Education

(b) Name of topic: Business Technology

(c) Name of article: The New Industrial Engineering: Information Technology and Business Process
Redesign

(d) Name of author of the article: Thomas H. Davenport and James E. Short

(e) Year article was published: 1990

(f) URL to the actual article you reviewed:

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/48613/newindustrialeng00dave.pdf

The article talked about how it was believed that industrial engineers will focus on increasing the
redesign of business processes which include IT. Now, they did state in the article that it would be future
engineers not current ones. They talked about how the concept has already been being researched.
People are looking to start implementing it in the near future. They ended the article to say that
companies who master this skill will do well in the upcoming years.