Business Transformation Requires Transformational Leaders

Enterprise architecture means very different things to different people. Some think of it as one thing, while others view it as a set of different architectures or perspectives. In recent years, the Zachman framework has become an increasingly popular way of defining the breadth and scope of an enterprise architecture.

Events are usually associated with process control systems and other applications that function in a dynamic manner. The team revising the Object Management Group's UML notation has gone to quite a bit of effort in creating the new 2.0 version of UML, to separate event or state diagrams from activity or workflow diagrams.

The evaluation of information systems (IS) has attracted an amount of concern among practitioners [1]. This interest has resulted in an increasing belief that the current approach to IS management has to change. IS are taking too long to develop, costing too much to produce and maintain, and are not frequently perceived to be delivering the business benefits that were intended.

Pick a project that you consider to be important. Ask yourself, "Is this project in a good mood or in a bad mood?" If this "gut feel" test turns out to be "bad mood," the first step is to apply a mood-altering process. I learned this the hard way.