Kent Bimson | Stowe Boyd | John Bruder | Elliot Chikofsky  | Inta Cinite |  
Bill Clarke | Peter Dyck | Ian Gilmour | Allan Jones | Vijay Kumar | Michael Lachapelle |
Richard Lay | Stan Locke | Derrick Palmer | Liz Sanders | John Zachman

Kent Bimson, PhD
Intervista Institute faculty member and leading expert in Information Architecture, Enterprise Information Management and Enterprise Semantics, Kent Bimson works with diverse clients in government and business organizations on complex integration challenges. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from UCLA and a M.S. in Computer Science from California State University Sacramento. Kent brings to the course many years of experience at SAIC, Lockheed and as an independent consultant. Among his projects is the support of the USAF 45th Space Wing in supporting its Knowledge Management Initiative using an ontology to integrate legacy structured and unstructured information. His expertise includes enterprise information integration, semantic and ontology modeling and semantic technology strategy.

Stowe Boyd
My focus is the future of work, and the tectonic forces pushing business, media, and society into an unclear and accelerating postnormal era. I consider myself a web anthropologist and futurist.

I started my career as a software researcher working in programming tools and software environments. I have served as adjunct computer science faculty, an inadvertent entrepreneur, an software analyst, a newsletter editor, a columnist, president of a blog media company, and mostly as a commentator and advisor. I started blogging in 1999, and along the way I coined the terms 'social tools' and 'hashtag'. I have over 250 stitches in my head, mostly from brain surgery.

I have presented at numerous conferences and events worldwide, including Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, GigaOM Net:Work, Reboot, Next, Mesh, Shift, Lift, SIBOS, Defrag, SxSW, and TEDxMidAtlantic. I am the lead researcher for social business and the future of work at GigaOM Research and I am working on a book about the future of work and our place in it.

John Bruder
John is a member of the Intervista faculty and has over 20 years of experience in the information technology industry. John also has 14 years of experience in developing enterprise business models to support complex business and IT problem solving in both public and private sectors.  He is a Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture, at KPMG LLP. Prior to joining KPMG, he was the Business Architecture Practice Leader at Chartwell IRM Inc. and prior to that the Vice-President of Information Technology at TE Financial.

Elliot Chikofsky
Elliot Chikofsky is a member of the Intervista faculty and is an EM&I Fellow with Engineering Management & Integration (EM&I).  He advises on IT investment and portfolio management, enterprise architecture, and systems management for both corporate and government clients.  He is also Vice Chair of IEEE's Technical Council on Software Engineering, as well as Chair of the Reengineering Forum industry association. Prior to joining EM&I, he was a research analyst and consulting director for the IT analyst firm Meta Group and an associate director in the consulting firm DMR Group. He is noted for his work on IT investment management, reengineering, reverse engineering, software tools and CASE environments, including IBM's AD/Cycle initiative. In the late 1980s, he was the research and technology director for the Excelerator CASE products. Chikofsky is past-Chair of the IEEE's international Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) and co-chaired the first IEEE EQUITY conference (Amsterdam, 2007) on portfolio and IT investment issues. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate information systems engineering for both the University of Phoenix and Northeastern University in Boston.

Inta Cinite, PhD
Inta is a research associate with Intervista Institute as well as consultant, educator and researcher in the areas of organizational behavior, organizational change management, cross-cultural management and human resource management.  She earned her Ph.D. in Management at Carleton University and holds an MBA from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Inta Cinite has taught at the university level and has been a research lead in change management.  Recently Inta has done research in innovation management.  She has also presented at conferences and published in the area of change management.

Bill Clarke, PhD Candidate
This lively and strategically-oriented session clarifies the best practices of SOA implementation and management. It is animated by the eminent Bill Clarke - who was previously Senior Consultant for SOA Strategy with AgilePath. Bill has over twenty years of experience as an independent consultant, market analyst and consultant. He has guided clients such as Hartford Life, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Partners Healthcare, U.S. TRANSCOM (a DoD command), Lockheed Martin and others. Bill holds an M.A degree from Boston University where he is completing a Ph.D.

Peter Dyck
Peter is a member of the Intervista faculty and has over 25 years of experience in the information technology and management consulting industries. Peter has 13 years of experience in supporting business and IT strategy and transformation using enterprise business architecture.  Peter also has experience teaching at the University level. Peter is a Senior Manager in the Strategy and Performance practice at KPMG LLP. Prior to joining KPMG, he worked as a Senior Consultant at Chartwell IRM Inc. and an IT Manager at a large Canadian insurance company.

Ian Gilmour
Ian is a member of the Intervista faculty and has 25 years experience in applying information technology to support business innovation. He consults regularly with public and private sector clients on the development of Business Architectures to solve complex business problems. He is an Associate Partner, Enterprise Architecture, at KPMG LLP. Prior to joining KPMG, he was the Chief Methodologist at Chartwell IRM Inc. and the associate director of the Convergent Engineering Institute, San Mateo, CA.

Allan Jones, PhD
Dr. Allan Jones has 20 years experience providing organizational change and development, leadership and management, organizational assessment, strategic planning and business process improvement. His clients have included various large organizations including goverment. He is currently with Engineering, Management & Integration, Inc. (EM&I). 

He received his Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic and State University (VA Tech), a Masters degree from The George Washington University, and holds a professional certification in organizational development from Georgetown University and a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Jones has taught graduate level courses in social and organizational learning and presents regularly at professional and academic conferences.

Recent presentations and conference papers have included “Social Network Dynamics, Enterprise Culture and eSociety: A New View of Disruptive Technology,” co-authored with Dr. Gary Berg-Cross; “Fears Big and Small: Moving Beyond Command and Control through Archetypes,” and “Organizational Learning: Tapping into the Wisdom of Your Organization”.

Prof. Vijay Kumar, PhD
Prof. Vijay Kumar leads the strategic design and innovation program at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. Kumar has taught, published, lectured, and consulted throughout the world about how to use structured methods, tools, and frameworks for conceiving new human-centered innovation opportunities and turning them into strategic innovation plans for organizations. He has helped organizations reframe emerging innovation opportunities in education, health care, communication, retail, social reform, and emerging markets among others. Kumar has over 25 years of experience in these areas worldwide.

He also leads his consulting firm, Innovation Methods, based at Chicago providing services on user-centered innovation planning and methods. He was the Chief Methodologist at Doblin Inc. - a strategic innovation planning consulting firm based at Chicago – for more than 12 years. He has consulted with companies such as Alamo, Amoco, Hallmark, Lenscrafters, McDonald's, Motorola, Pfizer, Shell, SAS Airlines, Steelcase, Texas Instruments, Wells Fargo, Proctor & Gamble, Target, Bose, Autodesk, Kraft Foods, and T-Mobile. Kumar is a frequent speaker worldwide and is widely published on the topic of innovation.

Michael Lachapelle
Michael Lachapelle is a member of the Intervista faculty as well as a business design and transformation consultant with more than 12 years' experience in both the corporate and public sectors. As course leader, he shares his expertise in business design and innovation, enterprise business analysis, business architecture, policy analysis and business model innovation. He is the Founder and Principal Analyst of Business Model Fulcrum. Michael has extensive experience in facilitating innovation workshops and in the practice of business modeling, business process management, and strategic transformation.

For the past five years Michael has been involved with an international community developing the practice of business design. He is the only Business Model Generation Certified Trainer in Canada and a member of cohort of thirty trainers worldwide. Additionally, Michael is one of five featured members and the administrator of the Business Model Innovation Hub, a community or more than 14,500 entrepreneurs, analysts and academics in 132 countries developing the knowledge base of business models and business design and innovation.

Richard Lay
Richard has over 25 years of experience in the information technology and management consulting industries. He has supported numerous strategy and transformation initiatives, both teaching and practicing Enterprise and Business Architecture. Richard is a Manager in the Enterprise Architecture practice at KPMG LLP. He has consulted in the public and private sector working at all levels from business strategy to implementation. He brings a structured approach to Business Architecture.

Stan Locke
Long time faculty member of the Intervista Institute and Enterprise Architecture implementation consultant, researcher and practitioner. Publisher of the Zachman Framework e-book and architect of the Zachman Framework Standard. Provides leadership, advisory services and project consulting to corporations and large government organizations in Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Modeling, Repository management and related initiatives.


Derrick Palmer
Derrick Palmer is a Managing Principal of InnovationPoint and advises on strategic innovation to global and Fortune 1000 companies, new ventures and medium-sized organizations. His areas of focus include breakthrough strategy, new product and service innovation, consumer insight research as well as designing and instituting best-in-class innovation processes. 

With 25 years of management and consulting experience, Derrick brings a wealth of traditional and non-traditional consulting approaches which he blends to creatively solve business problems and develop innovative strategies. He has extensive experience leading cross-functional and multi-cultural teams through the fuzzy front end innovation process.

Liz Sanders, PhD
Liz Sanders is the President of MakeTools, a company that explores new spaces in the emerging design research landscape. She is a visionary in applied design research, having introduced many of the tools, techniques and methods being used today to drive and/or inspire design from a human-centered perspective.

Liz has practiced across all the design disciplines. Her current focus is on bringing participatory, human-centered design thinking to the planning and architectural design process. Liz also speaks about and offers learning experiences in human-centered design research and innovation for clients, colleagues and students around the world. She has a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and a B.A. in both Psychology and in Anthropology.


John Zachman 
Internationally recognized thought leader in the discipline of Enterprise Architecture. Originator of one of the most authoritative conceptual structures on IS architecture — Framework for Enterprise Architecture, author of the e-book "The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture — A Primer" and the Zachman Framework Standards.
Inspiring conference speaker and long time faculty member of the Intervista Institute.

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