Geoffrey Balmes is a Senior Business Architect and management consultant with a natural talent for improving business effectiveness by integrating business architecture into the enterprise and leveraging the latest trends in business process management and service-oriented architecture. He employs expert skills from more than 25 years of domestic and international experience with well-studied, proven approaches for evaluating business effectiveness and ensuring alignment between IT and the business. Mr. Balmes can be reached at E-mail: gbalmes at collaborativeconsulting.com; Web site: www.collaborativeconsulting.com.