Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Traditional management espouses that executives are supposed to develop a vision, chart a course for the organization, and guide it to that ...

There is a fascinating article in Wired (Oct. 2009) on a Doomsday Machine called “the Perimeter System” created by the Soviets. If anyone ...

We are all familiar with conflict management and day-to-day negotiations in our everyday leadership role in our organizations, and the key t...

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

In the Star Trek series Voyager, the (cyb)Borg wants to assimilate everyone (literally every species and they are given numbers to keep trac...

See new article in Architecture and Governance Magazine on: IT Planning, Governance and the CIO: Why a Structured Approach Is Critical to L...

Perhaps many of you have wondered what the relationship is between the IT Strategic Plan and the Enterprise Architecture Transition Plan? Wh...

In User-centric EA, we develop a vision or target state for the organization. However, there are a number of paradoxes in developing an EA ...

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed " Ike ", was a five-star General in the United States Arm...

  User-centric EA guides all facets of the enterprise architecture. It starts from the capture of the information, which is based on a str...

Planning for the target architecture of an enterprise is a difficult task; some would compare it to looking into a crystal ball and trying t...

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

“ Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR , was the thirty-second President...

As enterprise architects, we need to have clarity of vision to see what is and to chart a way ahead for the organization. Yet, we live ami...

What happens when users want conflicting things from their EA programs? Recently, as part of a discussion following an EA briefing, I rece...

"Gestalt theory is a theory...that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...This is in contrast to the "atomistic" p...

User-centric EA fulfills many different needs (as portrayed through Use Cases) in the enterprise. In the Journal of Enterprise A...