BOOK SHELF: Words to the Wize on the enterprise

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June 2005; Vol. 1 No. 2

BOOK SHELF: Words to the Wize on the enterprise

By Richard W. Walker

Here’s a book for government executives who still find enterprise architectures a bit of a mystery.

DoDAF Wizdom, published by Wizdom Systems Inc. of Naperville, Ill., is a 264-page guide to planning and managing enterprise architecture projects. It uses the Defense Department’s enterprise architecture framework as a model.

“The target audience is senior government people who are wondering what this is all about,” said author Dennis Wisnosky, chief executive officer of Wizdom Systems.

An analytical tool, an enterprise architecture is essentially a blueprint for modernization, describing current and future agency business processes. Wisnosky said the book is aimed at execs who manage or direct staff involved in building architecture frameworks.

“Here’s a senior government executive who knows that there is a requirement to build an architecture and is faced with 1,300 pages of guidance,” he said. “What can [he or she] do with that? The book explains what to do and in what order to do it.

“It explains that logic in very simple terms,” he said.

DoDAF Wizdom uses the DOD approach because the department has more experience in enterprise architectures and a more difficult modernization challenge than other agencies, he said.

DoDAF Wizdom is available for $49.95 from www.wizdom.com or Amazon.com.