Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Thought this may be helpful for those looking at a Governance Process and Gate Reviews for project management.  This aligns the Capita...

There are lots of biases that can get in the way of sound decision-making . An very good article in Harvard Business Review (June 2011)...

A Federal Enterprise Architecture Board (FEAB) would provide “teeth” to further implementing enterprise architecture across government....

Note: This is not an endorsement of any vendor or product, but I thought this short video on enterprise architecture planning and capital pl...

In enterprise architecture, we develop IT targets and plans for the organization, but these are usually not tested in any meaningful or sign...

Punlished at Government Technology [Editor's Note: This article is the second in a series that explores the CIO Support Services Frame...

Published at Government Technology [Note: This is a two-part article on strengthening the office of the CIO to improve IT operations. ...

The CIO Support Service Framework (CSSF) has 5 major components: Enterprise Architecture --for strategic, tactical, and operational planning...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Andy Blumenthal Presents How Enterprise Architecture is Transforming Government (June 2009) View mor...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Andy Blumenthal Presents How Enterprise Architecture Shapes IT Governance View more Microsoft Word d...

What makes a good organization become great in terms of technology? In the book, Good to Great by Jim Collins, the author describes a five y...

IT portfolio management (ITPfM) is the application of systematic management to large classes of items managed by enterprise Information Tec...

IT governance is something people tend to have a love/hate relationship with. They love it because they know they need it and will benefit f...

Enterprise architecture and portfolio management are closely linked activities. EA drives IT investment management (including the IT portfo...

According to Everett Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) Theory, adopters of any new innovation or idea can be categorized based on the b...

“A Hype Cycle (term coined by Gartner) is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technolog...

Murphy's law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a ch...

Oh how dear is my technology? The Wall Street Journal, 1-2 September 2007, wrote about a dying woman and her last words to her daughters: “I...

User-centric EA seeks to align the various life cycle IT system processes to help users understand, navigate, and complete these as simply a...