John Zachman is the originator of the "Framework for Enterprise Architecture" which has received broad acceptance throughout the world as an integrative framework for understanding enterprises and the systems, people, technologies, and processes that comprise and support them. The Zachman Framework is a model or ontology for understanding and managing change in enterprises. He is not only known for this work, but also for his early contributions to Business Systems Planning, IBM's widely used information planning methodology in the 1970s, as well as Intensive Planning, the basis for IBM's executive, team planning techniques.

Mr. Zachman has focused on planning and information strategies, and on architecture, since 1970 and has written many articles on these subjects. He travels nationally and internationally, teaching and consulting, and has facilitated innumerable executive team planning sessions. He is a popular conference speaker known for motivating messages on information issues. He has spoken to thousands of information professionals and business managers on every continent.

John Zachman is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Data Administration Management Association, DAMA International; a member of the International Information Resource Management Advisory Council of Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC; and of the Board of Directors of the Depository/Architecture/Development Users Group.