John Zachman

"The older disciplines of Architecture and Manufacturing have accumulated considerable bodies of product knowledge through disciplined management of the "product definition" design artifacts. This has …"

"A framework as it applies to enterprises is simply a logical structure for classifying and organising the descriptive representations of an enterprise that are significant to the management of the ent…"

"There is a set of architectural representations produced over the process of building a complex engineering product representing the different perspectives of the different participants."

"When the rate of change increases to the point that real time required to assimilate change exceeds the time in with change must be manifest, the enterprise is going to find itself in deep yogurt."

"Issues of quality, timeliness and change are the conditions that are forcing us to face up to the issues of enterprise architecture. The precedent of all the older disciplines known today establishes …"

"The Information Age is unfolding just as predicted by many of the sociological prognosticators of this century. Information issues are on everyone’s mind and on multitudes of lips. It is hard to pick …"

"Business System Planning and Business Information Control Study are two information system planning study methodologies that specifically employ enterprise analysis techniques in the course of their a…"

"an analogous set of architectural representations is likely to be produced in building any complex product."