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Philip
Allega
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Philip Allega has 20 years of experience in financial services, consumer products, retail, government, utilities, and healthcare for both Global and North American organizations and is a sought-after advisor to senior IT leadership teams. He delivers actionable counsel to Global 2000 clients in enterprise planning and architecture strategies to deliver business value on IT investments. Prior to joining META Group in November 1998, Mr. Allega consulted small and medium businesses, served as director of technology planning for Taco Bell Corporation, assisted a startup venture which led to a public offering, and managed development of retail software for insurance and real estate professionals. Mr. Allega holds a BS in business management from the University of Phoenix and an MBA from the University of California, Irvine. Areas of Coverage include: Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Architecture Organization, Enterprise Architecture Planning and Process, Enterprise Architecture Value, Enterprise Business Architecture, Enterprise Information Architecture, Enterprise Technical Architecture, Enterprise Solution Architecture, Enterprise Program Management, IT Portfolio Management.
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- Workshop 2: Key Issues in Architecture Management
- Track 4: Driving a Service Oriented Architecture
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Willie
Appel
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Willie Appel, with more than 24 years of IT industry experience, is an international practitioner, leading authority, and frequent keynote speaker on enterprise planning and architecture, enterprise program management, and IT portfolio management strategies. He has coached enterprise architecture teams and created enterprise architecture deliverables for both government/public - and private-sector organizations in Africa, North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Before joining META Group in 1998, Mr. Appel was chief technology architect for the IT division of Nedcor Bank in South Africa; he was co-responsible for technical architecture and directly involved with the Internet/e-commerce architecture, elevating Nedcor to one of the top banks in South Africa. He began his career with the Department of Telecommunications, where he specialized in teletext and telecommunications networks. Mr. Appel received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Areas of Coverage include: Enterprise Architecture; Enterprise Architecture Organization; Enterprise Architecture Planning and Process; Enterprise Technical Architecture; Program Management.
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Frank
Baldinger
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For the last three years Mr. Baldinger has been employed at ING Group Level as Corporate IT staff member (associate) with the main focus on IT-Architecture and Business Alignment on ING Group Level. Mr. Baldinger has been employed as manager in several operating companies of the ING Group in the areas of Electronic Banking, Payment systems on Architecture and System Development tasks since 1988. His main experience was focused on:
- managing a system development group for electronic payments systems,
- an IT-Architecture department for the payments factory of Postbank Netherlands,.
- and program-management of a large organisational Capability Maturity Model upgrade to level 3 (700 system developers).
Mr. Baldinger started
in 1973 as an System Integration Engineer for real-time operating systems
(EWS) in the telephone branch exchange industry for Siemens AG in Munich.
Worked in several areas: design programming, system test, system integration
of complex HW/SW real time environments.
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Matthew
Brown
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Matthew Brown is Managing Director of Winsoft Business Solutions Ltd - (www.proforma-emea.com) - a process improvement company providing software, consultancy and training services. He has worked in oil exploration as a geophysicist and geodesist, the computer software industry as a programmer and database design engineer, and the process improvement world as an analyst and facilitator. Realising that many process improvement projects fail as a result of not understanding the problem or the requirements, he started Winsoft to help organisations discuss, agree and improve their processes. He believes that understanding the Who, What, Where, When, Why and How of an organisation is essential if you are to improve the organisation.
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Richard
Buchanan
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Richard Buchanan is a world-renowned expert on enterprise architecture and IT strategy. With 15 years of experience as a practitioner and consultant to Global 2000 companies, he has published numerous articles on topics as diverse as integrated logistics, electronic commerce, component-based software development, competitive intelligence, and financial modeling. Prior to joining META Group in November 1996, Mr. Buchanan was the founder and principal of The Buchanan Group, an analysis and consulting firm responsible for enterprise architectural planning, market studies, competitive profiles, white papers, focus groups, scenario planning, and competitive war gaming. Prior to that, he was an analyst in the Computing Strategy Service of Forrester Research. Mr. Buchanan's experience also includes work at Digital Equipment Corp., where he managed product research and competitive intelligence activities and was a key member of its global strategy planning team. Areas of Coverage include: Enterprise Architecture; Enterprise Architecture Organization; Enterprise Architecture Planning and Process; Enterprise Technical Architecture; Program Management.
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- Workshop 1: The Core Concepts of Adaptive Enterprise Architecture
- Chair Address: Introduction from the Chairs
- Track 4: Architecting and Delivering the Business Application Portfolio
- Guru Panel
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Brian
Burke |
Brian Burke is a global thought leader in IT strategy and enterprise architecture. His groundbreaking work in the development of federated architectures has been implemented in hundreds of organizations in both the public and private sectors. He is also a prominent researcher and speaker in the areas of IT portfolio management, IT organizational structures, and business/IT alignment. Mr. Burke has a broad and diverse background in technology and strategy, gained over 19 years in the industry. Prior to joining META Group in 1998, he held senior management positions with responsibility for the development of IT strategy and architecture and the implementation of emerging technologies, including Internet, knowledge management, data warehouse, groupware, client/server, and LAN/desktop technology. Areas of Coverage include: Enterprise Architecture; Enterprise Architecture Organization; Enterprise Architecture Planning and Process; Enterprise Technical Architecture; Project Management.
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Philip
Dawson
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Philip Dawson is a leading authority on Linux, Unix, and Windows infrastructure platforms with end-to-end high availability (HA), robust clustering, and partitioning capability. He also specializes in enterprise storage and server strategies and selection. Prior to joining META Group, he was competitive market research manager for Sequent Computer Systems, Europe. In this role, he worked within product marketing to help develop Unix/NT integration strategies and the introduction of Intel IA32/IA64 NUMA platforms. Previously, he worked at Santa Cruz Operation as product marketing manager for all layered products. Mr. Dawson holds a BA in Computing in Business from the Huddersfield Polytechnic and a Diploma in Computer Studies.
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- Track 4: Open Source: Costs and Consequences
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Gary
Doucet
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Gary Doucet is the Executive Director of Architecture for Chief Information Officer Branch of Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada. He is responsible for the continued development of Canada’s Federated Architecture Program (FAP). The purpose of the GOC FAP is to provide leadership, co-ordination, and broad direction in the planning, development, maintenance and use of a government-wide architecture for IM/IT infrastructure. comprised of the subset of the departmental infrastructure domains that are common or shared across government. The FAP now includes the Business Transformation Enablement Program (BTEP) which takes a Strategic, Business First, approach to transforming government service delivery, which is comprised of strategic reference models, transformation frameworks, roadmaps and methodologies. Further, he chairs a strategic architecture working group (Compass) that tackles some of the more pressing GoC-Wide issues such as Common Registration Services, Trust Model development, and Service Exchange (i.e. Web Service operationalization). He was previously the Director of the Architecture and Solution Management Office for CGI (Canada’s Largest Systems Integrator) Ottawa. He was the Lead Architect for the Secure Channel project, the cornerstone infrastructure project for Canada’s Government On-Line program which includes Common, PKI Enabled, Identity Services, a national secure network, and common application services.
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Li
Du
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Li Du has a PhD in Computer Science, 1992, University of Reading, UK; bMeng in Electronic Engineering, University of Chongqing, China; and Beng in Electronic Engineering, University of Chongqing, China. From 2002-Present He is the Manager, System Architecture and Engineering, GlaxoSmithKline, UK. From 1999-2002 he was the Software Development Manager, Bio-Rad Microscience Ltd, UK. From 1997-1999 he was Senior Software Engineer, Bio-Rad Microscience Ltd, UK. From 1995-1997 he was Senior Research Officer, Dept of Electronic System Eng., University of Essex, UK. From 1992-1995 he was a Research Fellow, Dept of Electrical & Electronic Eng., University of Surrey, UK, and from 1988-1992 he was a PhD student, Computer Science Dept, University of Reading, UK.
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Allan
Edwards
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Allan Edwards has worked for the Inland Revenue since 1979 with a two year break during the early 1990s when he joined the TSB, he currently works in the newly formed Business Design Office. His career with the Inland Revenue started in a local tax office before he moved into IT as a programmer developing large national systems. He had experience of live systems support before taking up a role as a systems designer. Following his spell at TSB he returned to the IR working in Operational Research mainly focusing on software development metrics but also developing process/simulation models. He then led a feasibility appraisal team that was responsible for working with IT suppliers in order to develop and cost potential solutions prior to project approval. Most recently he has been part of the Business Design Office and has been responsible for developing an Enterprise Model to support the Business Architect role.
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John
Good
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John Good leads the BBC’s enterprise architecture team where he has been principal architect for 2 years. He is a member of the Technical Strategy team responsible for defining the BBC’s overall technology vision and defining strategies for its delivery. The development of the technology architecture is part of the strategy for this delivery. John has 16 years experience of design, architecture and delivery experience in the public sector, logistics management and broadcasting industries.
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Danny
Goodall
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Danny Goodall is Marketing & Strategy Director for Sonic Software. Based in the United Kingdom, he is responsible for Sonic's marketing and strategy activities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Goodall joined Progress Software - Sonic Software's parent in April 1997 and has held the positions of UK Marketing Manager, European Product Manager and European Product Marketing Manager. He moved to marketing with a strong technical background gained through 16 years developing and integrating business applications. During this time Goodall experienced the entire software development lifecycle holding positions ranging from Developer, Team Leader, Analyst, Project Manager, Support Manager to Technical Director.
Before joining Progress Software, Goodall was Technical Director at Symtec, UK.
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Neil
Grant-Salmon
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Superintendent Neil Grant-Salmon is a police officer with 27 years' broad policing experience and is seconded from Hertfordshire Constabulary to the Police Service Central Customer within PITO, the Police IT Organisation. Central Customer was initiated in August 2002 to be responsible for articulating the Police Service need for ICT support and securing individual force take-up of national solutions. His role as Requirements Manager makes him responsible for delivering the Police Service Capability Strategy and Plan and determining the requirements for technology support for specific areas of business across the whole of policing. As part of the PITO Enterprise Architecture Metaframework Project he provides a police business view and is particularly interested in finding the best way to make national products such a business requirements, business process maps and benefits realisation plans available for use by all forces.
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John
Hayden
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John Hayden is the Group Enterprise Architect for the Absa Group, reporting to the Group Executive: Business & Technology Services (our “CIO”), at the Head Office in Johannesburg. John’s primary role is to facilitate the development of an integrated, enterprise-wide architectural framework and model for the Absa Group, aimed, inter alia, at building better alignment between “business” and “IT”, towards ensuring that our investments in the various architectural areas optimally support and enable our business strategy and vision. John works across the various architectural areas (IT, Information, Organisation and Process), and facilitates their integration and architectural maturity development. John is also responsible for driving one of Absa’s 12 identified “core capabilities”, namely, Process Optimisation. This involves promoting a process-centric culture across the Group, the training of business analysts within the business units (and systems analysts and project managers within the IT dept) in process-analysis and -improvement techniques, and the implementation of a “process ownership” matrix across the Group. Prior to his appointment as Group Enterprise Architect, John headed a division in Absa called Group Projects & Management Services. GP&MS was an internal management consultancy of over 100 staff. It provided project-management and change-management services to the various divisions across the Absa Group, covering the entire business-project lifecycle, from problem assessment, through redesign, piloting, implementation & roll-out, and post-review. Projects included large, complex strategic-change initiatives (organisational and process re-engineering and restructuring) through to smaller operational changes, as well as policy- and procedural-support services.
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David
Kwok |
David Kwok is the Asst. Chief Information Officer (Enterprise Architecture) at the Ministry of Defence, Singapore. He is responsible for spearheading the Enterprise Business Architecture efforts for the Corporate IT Portfolio as well as developing an objective framework for prioritizing IT projects to achieve strategic organizational business goals. A motivated IT professional with demonstrated analytical and strategy planning competency, he provides the leadership, co-ordination, planning and broad direction to jumpstart and develop a Portfolio-wide Enterprise Architecture. David holds a B.Eng in Civil Engineering and an ACCA professional degree. He completed a dual Masters of Science in Defence Technology & Systems and Computer Science at the National University of Singapore and the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Areas of Interest include Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Business Architecture, Enterprise Information Architecture, Enterprise Technical Architecture, Enterprise Solutions Architecture, IT Portfolio Management.
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Simon Mail currently works in Operational Research Services (ORS) at the Inland Revenue; where he has been for 17 years. ORS provides modelling and analytical support for major change programmes within the IR. For example, they have built simulation models to help assess the impact of new programmes such as NTC on staff and IT requirements. For the last two years he has been supporting the team developing an Inland Revenue Enterprise Model IREM). Prior to working in the IR he spent a number of years at University developing techniques for determining how old an insect is. Somewhat different from his current career.
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James
McGovern
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James McGovern is an Architect for Hartford Financial Services. He is an industry thought leader and has sixteen years of experience in Information Technology. He has co-authored a total of nine different books on various information technology subjects including the bestselling books: Xquery Kick Start, Java 2 Enterprise Edition Bible 1.4 Edition and Agile Enterprise Architecture. Previously, he was a columnist for Java Developers Journal and wrote the “Ask Doctor Java” column. He holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco and Sun. Prior to joining Hartford Financial Services, James worked in lead architect roles for several Internet Startups and was a technology director for a regional consulting firm. James is a member of the Java Community Process, IEEE Computer Society and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects.
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Mark
McGregor
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Mark McGregor is Vice President of Business Strategy at MEGA International. He is a frequent writer on the topics of Business Process and Enterprise Architecture and publishes monthly columns on both BPMG.org and BPTrends.com. He also recently published a paper on “Enterprise Business Process Management” which looks at the convergence of Business Process and Enterprise Architecture and the management and people issues that surround these issues. Mark has previously worked with a number of players in the Enterprise Architecture market, including Adaptive and Popkin where he held executive positions and also with Proforma Corp.
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Chris
Mendes
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Chris Mendes, a Senior Manager with 26 years experience in Information Technology development including 6 years as a Freelance Consultant. Extensive knowledge of both project and enterprise development gained in large organisations: Strategic Information Systems Planning; Information Architecture Design & Development (Business, Technical & Data); Business Systems & Data Analysis; Data Management; Structured & Object Oriented Analysis and Design; Computer Aided System Environment (CASE) & System Development Life Cycle integration. A proven track record of success within market sectors such as distribution & mail order, insurance & financial. Previous organisations include Fidelity Investments Limited, Civil Aviation Authority, Abbey National Limited and Texaco UK Limited.
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With more than 15 years of industry experience, Ash Pal is a premier authority on customer relationship management, ERP, collaboration, content management, and mobile, pervasive/lifestyle computing, and he is a certified META Group CRM coach. He focuses on business and executive alignment, architecture, product selection and vendor negotiation, and return on investment. His vertical experience spans various industries, including telecommunications, banking, pharmaceuticals/healthcare, and airlines. Prior to joining META Group in April 1997, Mr. Pal specialized in technology management and collaboration as an analyst for SRI International, co-authored "Intranets for Business Applications" and other key papers, and was a Royal Society technology policy analyst. He received a BS in Biological Sciences from the University of Ulster and undertook postgraduate research in applied genetics at Birmingham University. Areas of Coverage include: Productivity Suites; Collaboration; E-Mail/Messaging; and Web Site Design.
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- Track 4: Open Source: Costs and Consequences
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Jog
Raj
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Jog Raj's migration to the IT arena has been from a business/commercial background. This affords him the opportunity to see IT projects from the business user community viewpoint without the mentality of technology for technology's sake. His approach is one of a practical and pragmatic nature rather than theoretical and idealistic. Jog has first-hand experience in the successful implementation of numerous Business Process Re-engineering programs.
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Anne
Salètes
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Dr. Anne Salètes has held since 1993 management positions in the Informatics functions of the different business units of F. Hoffmann – La Roche (Vitamins, Diagnostics and Pharmaceuticals). Assignments included SAP R/3 implementation, Y2K programme management and Euro conversion. Since 2002, she has focussed on web content management and information flows within the company.
Prior to her move
to Life Sciences, her career focussed on Solid State Physics, including
a number of engagements in international programmes (European Community,
European Space Agency), speaking at specialized conferences.
Anne Salètes is a doctor in Solid State Physics and has an MBA
on Strategy, Innovation and Information Technology.
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Charlie
Schofield
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Charlie Schofield is currently leading the architecture team at MTV Networks Europe. He has been heavily involved in the design and implementation of many systems at MTV across the broadcast, revenue and interactive streams. He has gained more and more exposure to the size and complexity of MTV Europe and has become increasingly aware of the need for work at the higher level aimed at aligning efforts in the technology department with the business strategy. He subsequently secured sponsorship for and started the Enterprise Architecture program. Charlie came from a software engineering background with a degree in Computing Science and over 10 years hands on coding experience. In recent years the size of the problems he has been tackling has increased steadily from the purely code level to the enterprise level.
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William Sillery is a consultant with First Consulting Group (FCG), specializing in emerging technologies and their practical implementation. Based out of the London office he has great experience in the design, development and implementation of information management solutions throughout the life sciences market. Mr. Sillery has been with the FCG for three years, two of which have been spent with the life sciences practice following his transfer from the healthcare practice. Prior to joining FCG Bill worked for three years as a consultant with Pareto Consulting: the leading IM&T consulting firm working within the UK healthcare and government market.
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Howard Smith is Chief Technology Officer (Europe) of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and co-chair of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org). With more than 24 years in the IT industry, he is a sought after speaker and advisor. His work in predicting and shaping technology at the intersection with business led him to take an active role in the development and application of Business Process Modeling Language (BPML) and supporting Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). He is currently researching the application of business process management to corporate sustainability, innovation and growth, for which he has global research and development responsibility at CSC. He is the author of two books, Business Process Management: The Third Wave, and IT Doesn't Matter: Business Processes Do.
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- FEATURED PRESENTATION: Beyond Zachman: Process Management in the Enterprise
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Don
Tapscott
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Don Tapscott is an internationally requested authority, consultant and speaker on business strategy, organizational transformation and corporate governance. His clients include top executives of many of the world’s largest corporations and government leaders from many countries. The Washington Technology Report says he is one of the most influential media authorities since Marshall McLuhan. Mr. Tapscott has authored or co-authored ten widely read books on the application of technology in business. His upcoming book, co-authored with David Ticoll, THE NAKED CORPORATION; How the Age of Transparency will Revolutionize the Firm, to be published by Free Press in October 2003. The book discusses how increased access to information by employees, customers, shareholders, partners and communities is transforming the way corporations behave, operate and compete and what companies should do about it.
His penultimate book, co-authored with David Ticoll and Alex Lowy, is DIGITAL CAPITAL: Harnessing the Power of Business Webs. This best seller describes how business webs are replacing the traditional model of the firm and changing the dynamics of wealth creation and competition. Business Week described the book as “pure enlightenment.” Other best sellers include Growing Up Digital (1998), The Digital Economy (1995), and Paradigm Shift (1991.)
Mr. Tapscott is President of New Paradigm Learning Corporation, which he founded in 1992, and Adjunct Professor of Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He regularly contributes articles and opinion pieces to North American newspapers and magazines like Forbes, USA today and the Wall Street Journal, and is a columnist for enRoute, Intelligent Enterprise and Director magazines. He has been interviewed by broadcast media around the world.
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Ton
van Lierop |
Ton's main responsibilities are in the areas of Business - and IT-architecture, and the governance of IT application development. Is "executive secretary" of the Application Council (which governs the development of IT applications across ING Europe). Is member of the "Business Architecture Team", consisting of a number of senior executives, and custodian of ING Europe's business architecture. Ton started his career in (what is now called) IT in 1967: programmer, systems analyst, systems designer, project manager, head of systems development, predominantly in the insurance business. Head of internal Consultancy team within ING's Information Technology Centre - ITC (1985 - 1995), focussing on supporting management of ING's business units outside The Netherlands. CIO of Nationale-Nederlanden General Insurance company, the largest insurance company in The Netherlands and a subsidiary of ING (1995 - 2001).
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John
Zachman
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John A. Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework, or "periodic table" of descriptive representations for Enterprises. He is not only known for this work on Enterprise Architecture, but is also known for his early contributions to IBM’s Information Strategy methodology as well as to their Executive team planning techniques.
Mr. Zachman retired from IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organization dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.
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