Peter Bernus graduated from Budapest Technical University as an engineer in electronic technology in 1976. He started working at the Mechanical Engineering Automation Division Computer and Automation Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1990 he became a research officer at the Computer Science Department of the Queensland University in Australia. He is currently an Associate Professor at Griffith University, where he is teaching in the Masters of Enterprise Architecture program.
Since 1976, he has worked internationally on various aspects of enterprise integration as a researcher, consultant, project leader and trainer for industry for a wide range of organisations internationally. Dr. Bernus is also series editor for Springer Verlag, managing editor of the Handbook on Enterprise Architecture and the Handbook on Architectures of Information Systems, and is member of the editorial boards of several international journals. He is past chair of the IFIP-IFAC Task Force for Architectures for Enterprise Integration, which developed the Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) framework that generalizes the requirements of Enterprise Reference Architectures (ISO 15704:2000).
Peter Bernus' research interests are in Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Integration and Architectures for Enterprise Integration. Special interests include inter- and intra-organisational management, global enterprise networks, and dynamic project enterprises. He also has special interest in computer-mediated communication between people and ways to achieve common understanding.
Pat Turner is the CEO of Architecture Services (ASPL) Pty Ltd in Brisbane, Australia. He is currently EA Manager of Ipswitch City Council. Architecture Services (ASPL) was co-founded in 2006 by Patrick Turner, and he has successfully delivered engagements for small, medium and large enterprises both in Australia and abroad.
Dr John Gøtze has worked with government technology, enterprise architecture and open standards for more than 15 years. Today, he is an independent consultant and writer, and the President of AEA, the Association of Enterprise Architects. He is a co-founder of EA Fellows, a group of Danish enterprise architecture professionals. He is also a non-tenured associate professor at Copenhagen Business School and at the Danish IT University, where he has been teaching an enterprise architecture masters class for three years. He is also a staff member of OASIS, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards. He is also a member of the Open Policy Group.
As chief consultant and enterprise architect at the National IT and Telecom Agency in Copenhagen from early 2001 to late 2005, Dr Gøtze was involved with developing the Danish national policy for a government-wide enterprise architecture. He was responsible for the Danish interoperability framework, which recommends government to adopt a service-oriented architecture and open standards. In the EU, he has been involved with developing the European Interoperability Framework under the Europe 2005 programme. From 1997-2001, he worked for the Swedish government as head of section in the Swedish Agency for Public Management, and helped launch the Swedish e-government strategy. He holds a M.Sc. in Engineering and a Ph.D. in participatory design, both from the Technical University of Denmark.
Dr. Gøtze has lectured and written extensively about standards, e-government and enterprise architecture over the years. As a civil servant, he has co-authored several Danish and Swedish official policy documents, for example, White Paper on Enterprise Architecture in Government (2003, see www.oio.dk) and The 24/7 Agency: Criteria for 24/7 Agencies in the Networked Public Administration (2000, see www.statskontoret.se). As a member of the Open Policy Group, he is co-author of "Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems" (Harvard, 2005, see www.openization.org).
John is also the co-author of the brandnew book "Coherency Management: Architecting the Enterprise for Alignment, Agility and Assurance".
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