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

Eleven years after the 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Centers, we are still waiting for the new Freedom Tower to go up. Yes, the...

Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal (18 January 2012) on Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch. Standards ...

CIO Magazine, 15 July 2008, has an interesting article called “A Tangled Paths for Macs in the Enterprise.” The question posed: is it time...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), June 2008, has a wonderful article (by Ric Merrifield, Jack Calhoun, and Dennis Stevens) on how SOA is “the n...

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

There is a terrific article in ComputerWorld, 17 July 2008, called “Pentagon’s IT unit seeks to borrow tech ideas from Google, Amazon, other...

As a child, we learn from our parents, teachers, and mentors, that too much of even a good thing is bad for you: be it sweets or hard work—i...

“Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor ) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan fr...

Glocal is a combination of the words global and local. It is a best practice in business where organizations conducts business operations gl...

[This Blog is based entirely on public information and represents my views alone and not those of the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homela...

As many organizations have transitioned from a mainframe computing to a more distributed platform, they have become more decentralized and i...

Enterprise architecture seeks to simplify organizational complexity through both business processes reengineering and technology enablement....

Microsoft —with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of $51.12 billion as of 2007— is the company every consumer love...