Architect Corner

There are only 50 certifications available in next 6 months (until August 2012) unlike other certifications, which are in hundreds every month. So, hurry and enroll quickly in the city and country near you. This is a very exclusive certification program. If you want to understand the “Complexity & Contradiction” in Enterprise and struggling to manage non-adaptive enterprise and dysfunctional systems, you don’t want to miss this.

On behalf of iCMG management and the jury, I am happy to invite nominations for the world’s most coveted Enterprise & IT Architecture Awards. If you want your hard work, and achievement gets noticed – a coveted award will help you to compete better. Earn the honor, recognition and respect you deserve.

Some of the common myths about the framework are: Is the framework for Enterprise or IT or both; colors are random; there is no Integration across columns; transformation vs. decomposition; number of rows can change, columns are arbitrary, perspectives are random; no rules to separate primitive vs. composites; architecture constructs vs. manufacturing constructs; methodology vs. ontology; taxonomy vs. ontology; checklist vs. periodic table; row 1 & row 2 vs. row 6; etc.

Here, is a list of 16 key visible changes in Zachman Framework v3.0 compared to v2.0 (2004 version). There are several noteworthy changes in the new version which raises the understanding level and discards some of the existing myths and misconceptions. Moreover, this time the framework is aimed at the enterprise community in general and clears the cloud over the prevailing confusion about Enterprise Architecture vs. Enterprise IT Architecture.

There are 10 such quotes. These quotes are related to issues like enterprise objective, status of “strategy” within the enterprises, the need for traceability across the enterprise structural elements, how does IT (Information Technology) people perceive enterprise objective, how does a CEO of an enterprise perceives IT, need for simulation to understand impact analysis, idea vs. instantiation, changing external environments, complexity management, what makes the enterprise dysfunctional, need for architecture and of course the idea of lean enterprise.

iCMG Award 24 Winners for Global Excellence in Enterprise & IT Architecture. 22 companies around the world walked home with Global Awards for Architecture Excellence amidst enough fanfare at the Architecture Excellence Awards 2011 organized by iCMG.

In the first part of this series, I deliberated on how to define strategy models and the key factors to consider, transformation from strategy models to business models and then transformation from business to system models consisting of application architecture, network distribution,