2/28/2003
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Technical Associates, Inc.
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Technology Consulting and Solutions
•COMPREHENSIVE - it addresses the Enterprise in its
entirety. Any issues can be mapped against it to understand where they fit
within the context of the Enterprise as a whole.
•a LANGUAGE - it helps you think about complex concepts and
communicate them precisely with few, non-technical words.
•a PLANNING TOOL - it helps you make better choices as you
are never making choices in a vacuum. You can position issues in the context
of the Enterprise and see a total range of alternatives.
•a PROBLEM-SOLVING TOOL - it enables you to work with
abstractions, to simplify, to isolate simple variables without losing sense of
the complexity of the Enterprise as a whole.
•NEUTRAL - it is defined totally independently of tools or
methodologies and therefore any tool or any methodology can be mapped against it
to understand their implicit trade-offs ... that is, what they are
doing, and what they are NOT doing.
•SIMPLE - it is easy to understand ... not technical,
purely logical. In its most elemental form, it is three
perspectives: Owner, Designer, Builder ... and three abstractions: Material, Function, Geometry.
Anybody (technical or non-technical) can understand it.
In summary, the Zachman Framework is: