John Zachman is the author of the "Framework
for Information Systems Architecture", which has received broad
acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for managing change
in Enterprises and in the systems that support them. He is not only known for
this work, but also for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning,
IBM's widely used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive
Planning, the basis for IBM's executive, team planning techniques
The Framework for Enterprise Architecture
and Information Systems Architecture was developed by John Zachman from
observing how Architecture and Construction industries, and Engineering and
Manufacturing industries evolved over hundreds of years to handle the
construction of complex products of their respective activity. He applied these
concepts to the construction of other complex products: the design and change
of enterprises and the computer systems that support them
The Framework graphic in its most simplistic
form depicts the design artifacts that constitute the intersection between the
roles in the design process, that is, OWNER, DESIGNER and BUILDER;
and the product abstractions, that is, WHAT (material) it is made of, HOW
(process) it works and WHERE (geometry) the components are, relative to
one another.
Empirically, in the older disciplines, some
other "artifacts" were observable that were being used for scoping
and for implementation purposes. These roles are somewhat arbitrarily labeled PLANNER
and SUB-CONTRACTOR and are included in the Framework graphic that is
commonly exhibited.
John Zachman is a member of the International
Advisory Board of the Data Administration Management Association, DAMA
International; a member of the International Information Resource Management
Advisory Council of Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC; and of the Board
of Directors of the Repository/Architecture/Development Users Group
Sources :
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ieinfo/zachman.htm
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~visible/papers/zachman3.htm