John Zachman served for a number of years as a line officer in the United States Navy, and is a retired Commander in the US Naval Reserve.
10 Facts About John Zachman
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John Zachman joined IBM Corporation in 1964 and held various marketing-related positions in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.
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John Zachman became involved with Strategic Information Planning methodologies in 1970.
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John Zachman retired at IBM in 1990, having served them for 26 years.
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John Zachman is a Fellow for the College of Business Administration of the University of North Texas.
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John Zachman serves on the Advisory Board for Boston University's Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy, the Advisory Board for the Data Resource Management Program at the University of Washington and the Advisory Board of the Data Administration Management Association International.
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John Zachman was awarded the 2004 Oakland University, Applied Technology in Business, Award for IS Excellence and Innovation.
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John Zachman is one of the founding developers of IBM's Business Systems Planning, and worked on their Executive team planning techniques.
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The John Zachman Framework according to John Zachman is "a schema - the intersection between two historical classifications that have been in use for literally thousands of years".
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John Zachman had published three books, several articles and forewords to more than a hundred books on related subjects.