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James Martin was a British Information Technology consultant and author, known for his work on information technology engineering. Martin was nominated for a Pulitzer prize for his book, The Wired Society: A Challenge for Tomorrow.

✵ 19. October 1933 – 24. June 2013
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“A new type of professional is emerging – the enterprise engineer”

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Source: The great transition (1995), p. xii, As cited in: Jan Hoogervorst (2009) Enterprise Governance and Enterprise Engineering. p. 9

“A horrifying amount of "business engineering" is done with the wrong strategic vision. A horrifying amount of IT development is done with the wrong business design.”

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As cited in: " The Great Transition http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enterprise-design/the-great-transition-8696" Jurgens Pieterse April 7, 2006
The great transition (1995)

“From a very early age, we form concepts. Each concept is a particular idea or understanding we have about our world. These concepts allow us to make sense of and reason about the things in our world. These things to which our concepts apply are called objects.”

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James Martin (1993, p. 17) as cited in: " CIS330 Object Oriented Approach Ch2 http://webcadnet.blogspot.nl/2011/04/cis330-object-oriented-approach-text_3598.html" webcadnet.blogspot.nl. 2011/04/16

“Enterprise engineering is an integrated set of disciplines for building an enterprise, its processes, and systems.”

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Source: The great transition (1995), p. 58; As cited in: Jan Hoogervorst (2009, p. 9)

“Information Engineering is the application of an interlocking set of formal techniques for the planning, analysis, design, and construction of information systems on the enterprise wide basis or across a major sector of the enterprise.”

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Source: Information Engineering (1989), p. 1; cited in Karl E. Kurbel (2008) The making of information systems [electronic resource]. p. 176

“Enterprise Engineering is not a single methodology, but a sophisticated synthesis of the most important and successful of today's change methods. "Enterprise Engineering" first explains in detail all the critical disciplines (including continuous improvement, radical reinvention of business processes, enterprise redesign, and strategic visioning). It then illustrates how to custom-design the right combination of these change methods for your organization's specific needs.”

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Book summary
The great transition (1995)

“A real-time computer system may be defined as one which controls an environment by receiving data, processing them, and taking action or returning results sufficiently quickly to affect the functioning of the environment at that time.”

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Martin (1967) Design of real-time computer systems; cited in: John R. Ellis (1998) Objectifying Real-Time Systems. p. 249

“Information engineering has been defined with the reference to automated techniques as follows: An interlocking set of automated techniques in which enterprise models, data models and process models are built up in a comprehensive knowledge-base and are used to create and maintain data-processing systems.”

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Source: Information Engineering (1989), p. viii

“As technology grows in power, its ability either to disrupt or to heal increases. We can destroy the planet more easily than we can heal the harm we have done so far. To heal, we have to move to new technologies, new social patterns, new types of consumer products, new ways of generating and spending wealth. Such changes will inevitably occur, whether they are brought by healing forethought or mindless destruction. The future will not be a repetition of the past.”

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James Martin (1978) The wired society. p. 3

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