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

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and User-Centric Enterprise Architecture are both customer driven and focused on pr...

There are four steps in user-centric EA, aligned to the process-outcome model (input, process, output, and outcome): First, we Capture info...

When I worked at the United States Department of the Treasury in 2002, there was a real push by Secretary Paul O’Neil for enterprise solutio...

For many years, there was confusion in the architecture community between EA and solutions architecture. For example, I remember one of t...

User-centric EA is about providing decision makers with not only the relevant information they need (i.e. current, accurate, and complete), ...

Strategy (read EA) and operations are two sides of the same coin — both ultimately seek to provide service and support to the end-user — and...

Harry Potter loves User-Centric EA, which is all about making order out of chaos. No, EA is not wizardry, but it can be “magic” to an organ...

A “service” is a repeatable business task. In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), applications are built by assembling shared, reusable, m...

Modeling & simulation has been hailed as a national critical technology and vital to national economic leadership (Source: Congressiona...

One of the many definitions of EA is that it provides for a current, target, and transition plan for the organization. However, for those of...

Typically, EA is a program situated under the Chief Information Officer (CIO) i.e. in the Information Technology department. However, to max...

Traditionally, IT governance is viewed by the end user as an impediment to getting their IT projects done. It is seen as another opportunit...

What’s missing in the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) is the Human Capital Reference Model. The Human Capital perspective is critical...

Even though user-centric EA benefits the user, the big winner is the enterprise. EA helps us functionally, as follows: To plan better for I...

In user centric EA, business drives technology rather than technology being implemented for technology’s sake. In an EA where business driv...

In user-centric EA, the EA program owns the structure of the information, not the contents. On the other hand, the business programs and te...

At the end of the day, user-centric EA is about focusing on the user! We have know who they are, communicate with them, understand their ne...

Finally, Rule #5 is make it accessible. EA information is a wonderful tool, but to be valuable to the end-user it must be accessible to them...

Rule #4 is separate the forest from the trees. What this means is that we provide the users EA information in various levels of detail that ...

Rule #3 is show, don’t tell. • This means that a picture is worth a thousand words. It’s all about using information visualization effectiv...