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

CNET News, 24 January 2008 reports that Bill Gates calls for creative capitalism “in a speech Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

The world economy is globalizing, but sales and marketing is still a local activity. How should organizations architect the way forward to a...

User-centric EA uses visualization techniques like mind mapping to brainstorm and develop information products that are useful and useable t...

Enterprise architecture and portfolio management are closely linked activities. EA drives IT investment management (including the IT portfo...

Enterprise architecture develops the organization’s baseline and target architecture and transition plan. EA is an endeavor of change and tr...

Enterprise architecture is all about planning and governance to enable organizational success. But despite all the astute architectural pl...

One of enterprise architecture’s “targets” is to transform the organization from being purely monolithic, functional-based silos (like opera...

“SWOT Analysis is a strategic planning tool used to evaluate the S trengths, W eaknesses, O pportunities, and T hreats involved in a projec...

A key foundation to developing enterprise architecture is getting the EA terms and taxonomy right for the organization, so that there is a c...

There are a number of drivers and inhibitors of organizational change that are important for enterprise architects to know about and underst...

There are a number of key business technology trends that enterprise architects need to be aware of─McKinsey Quarterly reports these on 26 D...

The Sigmoid Curve is critical for understanding the need, timing, and challenge for organization transformation efforts. According to Charle...

Fire Sale ─“Matt Farrell (Justin Long), a character in the movie Live Free or Die Hard, used this term to describe the plot by Thomas Gabri...

Traditionally, the Marines are known for their rapid, hit hard capabilities. They are a highly mobile force trained to transport quickly on ...

Web 2.0─”a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services — such as social-networking sites, wikis, and folksonomi...

User-centric EA is concerned with establishing a baseline and target architecture and transition plan for the organization. This endeavor in...

The terms Taxonomy and Ontology are frequently confused; here are some basic definitions: “Taxonomy is the practice and science of classi...