John Zachman has announced changes to his operating companies. ZIFA will be winding down and Zachman International will be the primary organization for delivering Zachman Framework related products and services.
Stan Locke will be Managing Director and President, and John's son, John P. Zachman will be VP of Marketing. David Kingston, of Toronto, will be VP Customer Support Systems.
Sam Holcman of Pinnacle Business Group and partner in ZIFA will be moving on to his work in EACOE.
John also announced a new website, which looks great (it also uses a content management system similar to InfoAdvisors' site).
• Register
• for our iPod Touch® Give-away! (even if you are already a member).
• for the new Enterprise Standards
• to see or print the new Enterprise Framework2 graphic.
• Review
• my own 'wikipedia' concise definition of The Zachman Framework.
• the details of Zachman Certified requirements for practitioners, methodologies and tools.
• current and popular articles and reference material.
• Frequently Asked Questions that I personally have answered.
• timely announcements and press releases.
• Purchase our support products (requires registration)
• Various editions of my eBook.
• any of the new Zachman Framework2 posters.
• the new Framework2 model kits .
• An annual subscription to access the MetaFrameworks research work
• See and plan for
• Attending a scheduled conference engagement
• Attending a MasterClass course on our schedule.
• Requesting an in-house seminars or executive briefings.
If you register for the new site (and you should, even if you previously registered with ZIFA), you will be eligible to win an iPod Touch. John is doing the right thing by not assuming that information collected as part of ZIFA should be reused without your consent for ZI. So get over there and register.
So get on over there, register, and dip into all the great stuff available.
Zachman International