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“A new type of professional is emerging – the enterprise engineer”

James Martin (author)

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.”

James Martin (author)

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)

Business

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

James Martin (author)

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.”

James Martin (author)

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.”

James Martin (author)

Book summary
The great transition (1995)

Business , Change , Success

“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.”

James Martin (author)

Source: Information Engineering (1989), p. viii

Knowledge