Jaap Schekkerman

Jaap Schekkerman (born 1953) is a Dutch computer scientist and founder of the Institute For Enterprise Architecture Developments (IFEAD) in the Netherlands.

His main focus was helping Global Industrial, Pharmaceutical & Energy Companies in defining their Cyber & Physical Protectection & Resilience Architecture as a foundation for further implementations.

In 1982 Schekkerman received the American Ames Award for his article about future medical information technology development.

He explained: Recent Surveys of CEO’s, CIO’s and other executives provide some evidence of the growing importance of Enterprise Architecture over the last few years.

The various decisions related to business development and technology innovations need to be considered in a systemic manner within the framework of various architectures.

Most of the time, the term enterprise architecture is dealing with construction and function, without any attention of the style aspect, while the style aspect reflects the cultural behavior, values, norms and principles of that organization in such a way that it reflects the corporate values of that organization.

[13] It uses a 2-D matrix structure, similar to the Zachman Framework, and defines four types of scopes: business, information, system, and infrastructure.