[doosee]

My favorite abuse of the word is by corporate bureaucrats who are always claiming to be re-engineering.

But, if the engineers had engineered the matter properly when it was built, it wouldn't need re-engineered. Make sense?

[P.O.E.]

What I meant is they apply the term re-engineering to situations where no "engineering", per se, was involved.

For example, re-engineering the payroll department. It's a self-over-scientification of the task, to make it sound professional.

As a Comp Sci undergrad and MBA myself, I've seen way to much bureaucracy masquerading as objective, measurable, or technical progress.