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

  Who can argue with the usefulness of a "Sh*t Kit"? As it says: Don't get caught with your pants down! Wonder how Shark Tank ...

Had some fun driving around this cool little Robot in Rockville Town Center. I like to try out the latest gadgets.  It's funny peop...

Just a saying from Dr. Ferry Porsche (as in Porsche cars) that I liked: "It has always been a principal of our company that functio...

I like this saying that I heard. "The juice has to be worth the squeeze." It's a little like the corollary to "If s...

So I heard a new phrase from one of my colleagues recently... He goes on about somebody (or something) being like "2 teats on a bul...

Interesting... Bloomberg Businessweek ran a special anniversary issue with a countdown of the 85 most disruptive ideas (in the last 85...

I love Razer's Project Christine - a completely modular PC.  There is a stand and you simply attach the components you want: Central...

G-d, I remember as a kid in school having to memorize everything for every class--that was the humdrum life for a schoolchild. Vocabular...

So my approach to enterprise architecture, product design, and customer service, as many of you know, is plan and simple, User-centric! ...

The USDA released their new dietary guidelines yesterday (2 June). And while there is no surprise in the recommendations that we ...

At first I admit it, I didn't really get Google; I mean what is this G-o-o-g-l-e and the shtick about "doing search"...

Every day in the mail comes oodles of consumer catalogs: printed on quality stock paper, glossy, and many almost as thick as the community...

The premise of User-centric Enterprise Architecture is to transform traditional EA, which is often user-blind, and which develops “artifacts...

We are all familiar with personalizing websites like Yahoo.com to make them more appealing, functional, and easy to navigate. Now, accordi...

The best way to find out what the end-user wants is to ask them. The Wall Street Journal, 25 January 2008 reports on Ask.com that “Ask Sea...

User-centric Enterprise architecture is about capturing, processing, organizing, and effectively presenting business and technology informat...

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

User-centric EA is a strong proponent for developing information products that are useful and usable to the end-user. This is in contrast to...

Enterprise architecture helps to ensure the decision-makers in the organization have the information they need to make improve business proc...

Feng Shui, which literally means earth and water, is typically a way of “arranging living quarters with optimal comfort for mind and body.” ...