John Zachman

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John Zachman is an American computer scientist and is the originator of the Zachman framework, which is gaining acceptance as a framework for developing application architectures world-wide. It has been adopted by the United States Federal Chief Information Officers Council as a part of the Federal Enterprise Architecture Framework Standard. Prior to this work, he worked on IBM's IS methodology called Business Systems Planning, and their Executive team planning techniques (Intensive Planning).

Zachman joined IBM in 1964, retiring in 1990. 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. He is a Fellow for the College of Business Administration of the University of North Texas, and serves on the Advisory Board for Boston University’s Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy (BUILDE), the Advisory Board for the Data Resource Management Program at the University of Washington and the Advisory Board of the Data Administration Management Association International (DAMA-I) from whom he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in May of 2002.^[1]^[2]

He has written a book on the Zachman framework^[3], and a number of articles, including the seminal A Framework for Information Systems Architecture.^[4] He also coauthored the book Data Stores, Data Warehousing, and the Zachman Framework: Managing Enterprise Knowledge with W.H. Inmon and J.G. Geiger.^[5]