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

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What do North Korean ICBMs and the Las Vegas mass shooter have in common? They both target the masses for the maximum fatality count. ...

Thought this was really spot on. The knives get sharpened and readied.  At some point, they come flying out of nowhere.  Often, from...

One well-placed nuclear suitcase bomb or nuclear ballistic missile strike on DC and say goodbye to virtually the entire hub of the Feder...

I like the potential of the  FireEye Malware Protection System (MPS). Unlike traditional signature-based malware protections like antivi...

Walking through the halls of one of the local schools, there was this awesome display of cutout hands.  Each hand, done by a student, wa...

Classic enterprise architecture is figuring out how to move from the current/as-is state to the target/to-be state.  Generally, anything...

Mission execution and performance results are the highest goals of enterprise architecture. In the book Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani, he...

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

How should a CIO allocate their time between strategy and operations? Some CIOs are all operations; they are concerned solely with the ut...

There was a terrific keynote at the 1105 Government Information Group enterprise architecture conference this week in Washington, DC by Mr. ...

Burton Group released a report entitled “ Establishing and Maintaining Enterprise Architecture Momentum ” on 8 August 2008. Some key point...

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

As a discipline enterprise architecture strives to move the organization into the future—that is what EA planning and IT governance is all a...

ComputerWorld Magazine, 20 June 2008, tells us five things you don’t want to tell the CIO and which I believe tracks closely with the enterp...

TEOTWAWKI stands for the end of the world as we know it. It is a term used in the survivalist movement and is sometimes used as a reference ...

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 ...

Enterprise architecture, as John Zachman said, is about managing change and complexity. Naomi Karten has an interesting op-ed in ComputerW...

Anyone who has seen the amount of homework and stress our children are under these days would have to admit that our children are losing the...