Enterprise Architecture with a difference
The 8 factor approach	Return From Information (RFI)	Information First
Life Cycle of Intellectual Assets	Knowledge Scape	Information FrameWork (IFW)
History of Enterprise Architecture	Information Coaching	Information Obesity

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Information First - Integrating Knowledge with
Information Architecture for Business Advantage

Description

The enterprise architect's guide to enterprise complexity and change. Written for IT and corporate management, CIOs, and consultants. Provides practical, step-by-step guides and techniques for enterprise architects, business architects, and information architects.

The enterprise architect's guide to enterprise complexity and change

By focusing on Information First (and technology second) the authors establish the common ground that unites enterprise architecture with knowledge management and information architectures. Provides plenty of proven tips and guidelines, case studies and checklists to align enterprise architecture with business requirements and deliver business advantage.

Information First gives you a straightforward approach that complements other architectural approaches such as Zachman, TOGAF, FEAF, or the Polar Bear book.

Information First covers:

• Architecting organizational change
• Aligning architecture with business
• Justifying architecture
• The 8-factor approach to architecture
• Creating a practical architecture toolkit
• How to create a practical architecture toolkit?
• Adding exponential value
• Improving the architecture and keeping it current

How to order

directly from Butterworth Heinemann, or from Amazon in the USA or in the UK.

Reviews

"Information First's pithy nine chapters around corporate information, how to gather it, use and update it, and make it pay off. [It proposes] strategies for more effective gathering and utilizing of information as a means for managing change, complexity, and eventually knowledge itself. They provide tips for information mapping and architecture, and conclude with a very useful case study to illustrate their points."

Philip R. Harris, European Business Review.

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"This is an excellent book, full of practical examples including the diagnostic and modelling tools as an appendix. It is very readable without either an MBA or an MLS, and perhaps even more important the authors emphasise that it is not just large public companies that will benefit from their approach.

If you don't have an enterprise information strategy or even an intranet strategy then this book is for you. Morville and Rosenfeld's Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (O'Reilly, 2003) has so far set the standard for books on information architecture. This book takes more of a business strategy approach, and in doing so complements Morville and Rosenfeld. With both books and membership of Aifia you have the core tools of information architecture. Highly recommended."

Martin White, EContent & Intranets - Martin White is Managing Director of Intranet Focus Ltd. Reprinted with permission from Online, a division of Information Today, Inc. Read the full review in EContent & Intranets. Copyright © 2003 Information Today, Inc.

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"...a useful starting point for potentially valuable changes in the way many organisations manage information."

M-iD, Nov/Dec 2003

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"[Information First is] a rare gem among books about information - it is genuinely original, extremely relevant and highly practical."

Chief Technology Officer, International bank.

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"The approach of focusing on 'information' rather than 'IT architecture' or 'knowledge management' is quite original, and provides a very strong viewpoint that is complementary to much of the already published material in this broad field"

Ian Bowring, IBM Ireland.

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"Information technology has provided the possibility for a quantum leap in organizational intelligence but the design principles for this have not been made explicit or clear enough to be implemented. [Information First provides] a theory, a framework and examples to help bring this immense field together and, most important, make it operational. [It provides] a unique focus on language as a central element in design and operation of an information system. Few before have observed the key importance of language in an information system. Meaningful change in this area is not easy. Change of this importance, of this impact, of this potential magnitude on the profitability and viability of an enterprise requires effort and time. The book provides a tool to reduce the pain and effort and increase the speed of results from your efforts in increasing your organizational intelligence. "

Mike McMaster.

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"Information First shows how improved information architecture allows organizations to take change in stride and serve their stakeholders far more effectively. Its practical focus and self-assessment tools helps readers move from theory to action."

Charles Bowen, Technical Architect, Fidelity Information Services, USA.

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"Information First is a book that goes beyond the two dimensions of Zachman to eight dimensions or factors. It provides an underlying theory about managing and architecting information that allows organisations to build any kind of information architecture with whatever dimensions and meta-dimensions they require."

Adrian Campbell

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Table of contents

• Preface
• Architecting organizational change
• The essential 8 factors
• What & why, and when & how
• Who's responsible for what: assigning responsibility for changes
• Developing an information map: how to navigate the information resource
• Making it available: adding exponential value
• Using it: making the best use of corporate information
• Improving the architecture and keeping it current
• Conclusion: case study
• Further reading
• Appendices

ISBN: 0750658584