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

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...

Rule #2 of user-centric EA is Keep It Simple, Smart (Person). Executives and decision-makers are busy people and do not often have the time ...

From my experience, there are a number of ways to transform your EA into a user-centric model. In this post I will talk about the first one:...

Well, this is exciting...my first blog, dedicated to a subject that I am passionate about - user-centric enterprise architecture. Let's ...