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Warren Singer 1 The Zachman Enterprise FrameworkThe Origins and Purpose of the Zachman Enterprise FrameworkThe Zachman enterprise framework was invented by John Zachman in 1980 for IBM,and is now in the public domain. The framework borrows from business designprinciples in architecture and manufacturing and provides a way of viewing an enterpriseand its information systems from different perspectives, and showing how thecomponents of the enterprise are today s complex business environments, many large organisations have great difficultyresponding to change. Part of this difficulty is due to a lack of internal understanding ofthe complex structure and components in different areas of the organisation, wherelegacy information about the business is locked away in the minds of specific employeesor business units, without being made explicit.
© Warren Singer 2007 www.technical-communicators.com Page 3 Figure 1: Adaptation of the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework The framework offers a set of descriptive representations or models relevant for
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