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

TechStat is a governance model to "turn around or terminate" underperforming projects in the IT portfolio. This is one of th...

We’ve all been there asking why we missed the signs while others saw them head-on and benefited in some way. This happens with financial in...

IT governance is often implemented with the establishment of an IT Investment Review Board (IRB) and Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB); bu...

The Privacy Act of 1974 states: “no agency shall disclose any record which is contained in a system of records by any means of communicatio...

In the Harvard Business Review (HBR) whitepaper entitled, “Harnessing Our Inner Angels and Demons” by Milkman, Rogers, and Bazerman, the aut...

Enterprise Architecture is a combination of developing and using organizational insight and managing sound oversight. Boeing Company’s ...

To manage IT, you’ve got to have investment reviews, but when is it too much or not effective? There are a number of executives (CXO’s)...

The Wall Street Journal, 31 October 2007 states that “the error-reporting service built into the Windows operating system is a massive glo...

The Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2007 reports on a debate between the CIO of Highmark Inc. (a business education corporation) and the CIO...

One of the most difficult challenges we face as enterprise architects is when end-users don’t ask permission, but instead ask forgiveness. ...

In User-centric EA, users IT needs are met (timely and with quality solutions), while governance ensure that those needs are aligned with mi...