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Last year, we had a discussion in iCMG Linkedin group (over 20,000 members) which ignited the passion and invited over 1000 comments. The title of the thread was “What’s killing the Enterprise Architecture? – quote extracted from one of John Zachman’s article.”

As the time has gone by, the number of people who misrepresent and misinterpret the Zachman framework has gone up significantly. The problem is that the framework is easily available for download ...

Updated 23rd February 2012 at 03:30 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: enterprise, framework, myths, zachman

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Enterprise Architecture , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

It's few months since Zachman Framework version 3, was announced. Interestingly, this is the most EA-inclusive representation of the Zachman Framework over the last 40 years. The new version is the culmination of 4 decades of experience and it took nearly 12 months for Zachman International to prepare the " The Zachman Ontology for Enterprise Architecture".
There are several noteworthy changes in the new version which raises the understanding level and discards ...

Updated 23rd February 2012 at 03:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: architecture, architecture framework, business, business process, enterprise, enterprise architecture, framework, ontology, zachman, zachman framework

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Business Intelligence , BPM & BPMS , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites

It's already 12 days since the New Year began. The need for managing change and demand for quick response to the ongoing challenges are mounting pressure on time and resource utilization. Though some of the disciplines like “management” (invented by Peter Drucker nearly 70 years back) and “enterprise architecture” (invented by John Zachman nearly 34 years) are handy, people around us make it difficult sometime ;-).

Time is one of the commodities which seem ...

Updated 12th January 2012 at 08:37 AM by Sunil Dutt Jha

Tags: architecture, enterprise, enterprise architecture, icmg, sunil, sunil dutt jha, zachman

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Software Architecture , Enterprise Architecture , SOA & SaaS , Business Intelligence , BPM & BPMS , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites , Architecture events

In continuation to 2010, iCMG is happy to invite nomination forits annual Enterprise & IT Architecture Excellence Awards competition. Thiswill be a great opportunity for the enterprises and individuals who arecreating successful and enduring systems & enterprises to showcase theirremarkable works and get noticed by the global audience.

One of the most intriguing things about contests – both for thearchitects and for the judges – is that different architecture frameworks,architecture ...

Updated 29th April 2011 at 02:35 AM by megan

Tags: awards, enterprise architecture, icmg, it architecture

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Architecture Awards , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites , Architecture events

Why: taking an enterprise change management view of the department or organisation looks to answer the fundamental question:

What is happening in my organisation right now?

Business Enterprise Change Management takes a pragmatic and holistic view across the entire spectrum of the organisation (or department) from 3 key areas:

People
Process
Technology

Benefits include:

1. practical, business focused & oriented ...

Tags: itil, itsm

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Enterprise Architecture , ITIL & ITSM , UML, BPMN , Architecture related Business Opportunities , Architecture Trends & Surveys , Application & Product Lifecycle Management , CRM-Customer Relationship Management , Architecture Roles & Responsibilites