What is the real scoop with consulting companies who claim to “implement The Zachman Framework™?
“There are NO consulting companies, ZERO, that I know of that actually ‘implement The Zachman Framework™’. In fact, The Zachman Framework™ is not implementable… it is not an implementation. It is an ontology. Someone could build, store and reuse components of the Framework primitive models to create engineered, Enterprise implementations, and several organizations have now petitioned Zachman International to confirm that their methodological use of The Zachman Framework™ is certified as compliant or that their architecture work products are certified as conforming to the metamodel of one or more cells of The Zachman Framework™. They will be listed under Status Verification upon completion of the Certification process. If any person or company claims to do something with, or know something about The Zachman Framework™, or they claim to be Certified in The Zachman Framework™ and their name does not appear when searched on the Zachman International site here: Status Verification, then I w
