Don Floyd

Don Floyd is a member of Chateaux’s world class enterprise architecture practice. Don’s first end-to-end architecture project was in 1987, when he was chosen as part of a consulting team that designed and implemented the Australian Submarine Corporation over a three-year period, literally from the ground up. The success of this effort made an indelible mark – it was indeed possible to guide all aspects of an enterprise’s evolution from a single, interconnected blueprint. Don went on to redesign several major corporations, in a wide variety of industries, including manufacturing, healthcare, engineering, construction, pharmaceutical, insurance, shipbuilding, software development and bio-technology.

Don has a particular ability to use enterprise modeling to bridge divides where the collision of opposing management philosophies hinders a company’s progress; Manufacturing Resource Planning versus Construction Scheduling, Research versus Commercialization, even Object Oriented versus Entity Modeling. He has also shown that enterprise architecture can be scaled to small enterprises to guide growth strategies in a pragmatic way. A favorite “architecture” was a one-page composite of Organization, Process, and Information that was used in weekly management meetings to provide a common view of problem areas and guide improvements, helping a 4M company to progress to 40M in one year.

His experience is primarily balanced between process and information architecture specialties, with some organization, strategy planning, and business rules modeling.

Don is a graduate of Tulane University and has a Master of Science from Idaho State University. He has published papers in the area of statistical methods and measurement.