Dennis E. Wisnosky

Dennis E. Wisnosky

Dennis E. Wisnosky (1947) is an American consultant, writer and currently Chief Architect and Chief Technical Officer of the US DoD Business Mission Area (BMA) within the Office of Business Transformation. He is known as one of the creators and initiators of the Integrated Definition (IDEFs) language, a standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts.^[1]

Biography

Dennis Wisnosky was born in Washington, Pennsylvania. and received his bachelor's degree in Physics and Mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master's in Management Science from the University of Dayton, and a master's in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.^[1]

Wisnosky joined the US Air Force Materials Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio in 1971 were he headed the computer and information services. In 1976 he became manager of its ICAM program. In 1986 he founded Wizdom Systems and became its chief executive officer.^[2] In August 2006 he was appointed Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)).

He has received numerous honors for his work, including in May 1997, Fortune magazine recognized Wisnosky as "one of the five heroes of manufacturing"^[2] and the Federal 100 Award in 2007.

Expertise

Wisnosky has over 25 years of experience in Information Technology (IT) consulting and training, including extensive experience in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture efforts. His specialty is deriving solutions to effectively move organizations from their "As-Is" state of inefficiency to their "To-Be" state of achieving strategic and tactical objectives.^[1]

Author

Wisnosky has published over 100 papers in the fields of management, computer science, Services Oriented Architecture (SOA), Enterprise Architecture, Knowledge Management, computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), electronics, computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) and the Semantic Technologies/Web.

Wisnosky has authored 7 books. His book, “Overcoming Funnel Vision”, published in 1996, won critical acclaim. His book, "DoDAF Wizdom", written in 2004, remains the definitive how to guide for successfully building Enterprise Architectures using the DoD Architecture Framework (doDAF). Wisnosky has published books and papers in the fields of BPR, Semiconductor Processing, Information Technology, Robotics and Factory Controls,Management, SOA and Semantic Technology. He is the originator of the funnel visualization of enterprise control networks.^[2]

Speaker

Known as both a technology visionary and an entrepreneur who can engineer and deliver products, he is a frequent speaker on Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Semantic Technologies. As a private citizen, he has testified before subcommittees of both the U.S. House and Senate on U.S. productivity issues and the quality of American work life. He has received numerous professional recognition awards for his pioneering efforts in developing and implementing CIM methods and concepts including the International Engineer of the Year Award in 1989 and Fed 100 Award in 2006. He has taught various BPR courses including, the National Technical University, Australian CALS Symposium 1994, Wizdom University and more.

Chief Technical Officer

As Chief Technical Officer, Wisnosky is responsible for providing expert guidance and oversight in the design, development, and modification of the federated architectures supporting the Department's Business Mission Area. This role incorporates oversight of the DoD Business Enterprise Architecture (BEA) - the corporate level systems, processes, and data standards that are common across the DoD, in addition to the business architectures of the services and defense agencies.[1]

As Chief Architect, Wisnosky ensures that the federated architectures of the BMA fully support the Department's vision, mission, strategy and priorities for Business Transformation, and that each tier of the overall architecture is clearly defined with appropriate focused accountability aligned to the management structure of the DoD. He verifies that the BEA and component architectures remain consistent and compliant with the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA), and will support and collaborate with the DoD Components to unify architecture planning, development, and maintenance through a federated approach. Wisnosky also serves as an advisor on the development of requirements and extension of DoD net-centric enterprise services in collaboration with the office of the DoD Chief Information Officer.[1] He was the first to introduce Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) and to the Business Mission Area (BMA) and has established and lead an Enterprise approach to delivering BI based upon Semantic Technologies.

Group Vice President, Entrepreneur and CEO

Beginning in 1980, until asked to join the DoD, Wisnosky was a Director and then an Officer in public companies, and then founded and successfully exited, a series of his own companies – the Wizdom companies. These organizations specialized in delivering the highest quality products and services to manufacturing industries in the areas of robotics, factory control systems and Business Process Reengineering.

Integrated Computer-Aided Manufacturing

Dennis E. Wisnosky and Dan L. Shunk are recognized as co-founders of the ICAM program, which they founded in 1976.^[3] In the 1980s according to Savage (1996) "Joseph Harrington broadened the concept of CIM to include the entire manufacturing company. Harrington considered manufacturing a "monolithic function". This book discussed how the functions could interact as a seamless whole. Harrington was helpful to Wisnosky and Shunk in designing the USAF's ICAM program in the mid-1970s, and their work, in turn, influenced Harrington's second book".^[3]

Publications

Wisnosky is the author of seven books and over 100 papers including DoDAF Wizdom, considered the decisive source within DoD and other government organizations for managing enterprise architecture projects.^[1] A selection:

• 1973. An Inexpensive Universal Stepping Motor Controller. With James S Solomon, Dayton Univ. OH. Research Institute. Defense Technical Information Center, 1973.
• 1977. An overview of the Air Force program for integrated computer aided manufacturing (ICAM). SME technical paper
• 1977. ICAM program prospectus.
• 1980. The Southfield Report on Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Productivity for the 1980's : Proceedings of a Joint DoD--industry Manufacturing Technology Workshop. With Joseph Harrington, Manufacturing Technology Advisory Group, CAD/CAM Subcommittee, Dept. of Defense, United States.
• 1981. Computer Integrated Manufacturing the Air Force ICAM Approach. Society of Manufacturing Engineers.
• 1996. Softlogic: Overcoming Funnel Vision: How and Why IEC 1131 Based Softlogic Frees the Enterprise to Become Agile and Profitable. With Michael Babb.
• 2000. Beyond the Supply Chain: A Step-by-Step Guide to Radically Improving Healthcare Delivery with Electronic Transactions. With Leon E. Salomon and Anne Jones. Wizdom Systems, Inc., 2000. ISBN 1893990079
• 2001. BPR wizdom : a practical guide to BPR prject management. With Rita C. Feeney. Wizdom Systems, 2001. ISBN 1893990087
• 2004. Dodaf Wizdom: a Practical Guide to Planning, Managing and Executing Projects to Build Enterprise Architectures using the Department of Defense Architecture Framework. With Joseph Vogel. Wizdom Systems, Inc., 2004. ISBN 1893990095.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} Dennis E. Wisnosky, Chief Technical Officer of the Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area Accessed 22 Feb 2009.
2. ^ ^{a b c} Jim Strothman (2003). Leaders of the Pack: From the plant to academia, InTech's 50 most influential industry innovators. 01 August 2003 Accessed 22 Feb 2009.
3. ^ ^{a b} Charles M. Savage (1996). Fifth Generation Management : Co-creating Through Virtual Enterprising, Dynamic Teaming, and Knowledge Networking Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996. ISBN 0750697016. p. 184.

External links

• Defenselink
• Video: Intro to Semantic Technology in the DoD Business Mission Area
• Radio: FED_TechTalk

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