This two day seminar, presented by John Zachman himself, Father of Enterprise Architecture, is designed for enterprise professionals of every discipline including non-information disciplines as well as information disciplines. The seminar provides the bedrock for understanding Enterprise Architecture and The Zachman Framework™. Seminar topics include Business Drivers for Enterprise Architecture; The Zachman Framework™; Architecture versus Implementation; Enterprise Architecture Implementation Practicalities; Four Frameworks for Knowledge Management; Simplifying the Enterprise; Reducing I/S ‘Time-to-Market’; Federated Architecture.

Delegates will learn:
• A sense of urgency for aggressively pursuing Enterprise Architecture
• A comprehensive definition (description) of Enterprise Architecture
• A "language" (that is, a Framework) for improving enterprise communications about architecture issues
• An understanding of basic Enterprise "physics" - laws of nature that govern Enterprise implementations
• Differentiation of Enterprise Architecture from Systems Implementation
• A strategy for reducing "time-to-market" for systems implementations to virtually zero
• Some pragmatic approaches for implementing Enterprise-wide strategies
• Strategy for integration beyond jurisdiction (Interoperability)
• Architectural Principles for meeting enterprise requirements
• A list of resources to facilitate architectural work
http://www.irmuk.co.uk/events/3.cfm