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

“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech…and they said, go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unt...

Adam Smith, known as “The Father of Economics”, is best known for his "laissez-faire" economic theory. Smith believed in the righ...

To build a winning team for developing and maintaining a successful User-centric EA program, there are 7 key positions: Chief Enterprise A...

There is a terrific white paper from the National Institute of Health (NIH) called Enterprise Architecture: Engaging and Empowering People w...

User centric EA helps to filter out those technologies that seem “new and cool”, but are often really quite useless to the enterprise. In th...

The Peter Principle —Formulated by Laurence J. Peter, the Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to h...

User-centric EA is based on business driving technology, rather than technology for technology’s sake. An example of technology for te...

While User-centric EA is focused on the user and meeting their requirements, user-centric EA is not for a culture of entitlement in the orga...

There are currently two major federal best practices for information sharing: Netcentricity and the Information Sharing Environment. The Dep...

The Information Exchange Matrix (IEM) —a.k.a. OV-3 from the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF)—identifies the information...

In the book Marketing Insights from A to Z by Philip Kotler, the author states: “Marketing is too often confused with selling. Marketing an...

An organization’s performance is closely linked to the lives and state of mind of its leadership. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), 5 Septembe...

Groupthink is a type of thought exhibited by group members who try to minimize conflict and reach consensus without critically testing, ana...

The Community Model is a way of presenting a high level view of function and the actors and their relationships in an organization. The mod...

“Business intelligence ( BI ) refers to applications and technologies that are used to gather, provide access to, and analyze data and info...

In User-centric EA, it is important to facilitate the delivery of IT systems that meet user requirements. While it is solutions architectur...

Oh how dear is my technology? The Wall Street Journal, 1-2 September 2007, wrote about a dying woman and her last words to her daughters: “I...

I came across these Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices and thought they aligned well with User-centric EA and were worth sha...

User-centric EA provides Information Technology (IT) governance services by providing technical reviews for new or substantial changes to IT...

User-centric EA seeks to implement successful IT governance for the enterprise. As such, it seeks to ensure that new systems not only meet ...

User-centric EA seeks to align the various life cycle IT system processes to help users understand, navigate, and complete these as simply a...

In user-centric EA we are very focused on meeting the needs and requirements of the user community. However we need to beware of the fact th...

Data architecture done right provides for the discovery and exchange of data assets between producers and consumers of data. Data discovery ...

EA Review Boards are necessary for supporting sound technology investment management decisions (a.k.a. CPIC or capital planning and investme...

In User-centric EA, having a vision for the future is critical in developing the target architecture and transition plan. At one time, man ...

User-centric EA seeks the long term preservation, maturation, and growth of the organization and its ability to deliver mission execution . ...

In the federal government, there is a Chief Enterprise Architect in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) — this is a good thing. But th...

User-centric EA helps an organization meet its needs on many levels. The great psychologist Abraham Maslow, in the Hierarchy of Human Needs...

Is being a good leader about being a dictator or facilitating decision by consensus? The Wall Street Journal, 11 August, 2007 reports that...

User-centric EA believes in planning for the future —often uncertain, but always full of potential. Fortune Magazine, 20 August, 2007 , iden...