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

"Gestalt theory is a theory...that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts...This is in contrast to the "atomistic" p...

User-centric EA fulfills many different needs (as portrayed through Use Cases) in the enterprise. In the Journal of Enterprise A...

There are many schools of thought when it comes to strategic planning in which the organization develops its strategic plan through the foll...

The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2007 reports that “managing innovation is one of the biggest challenges that companies face.” Why? “...

The Wall Street Journal, 28 September 2007 reports that “as Myanmar’s regime cracks down on a growing protest movement, ‘citizen journalists...

Yin and Yang describe two primal opposing but complementary principles or cosmic forces said to be found in all non-static objects and proce...

“A Hype Cycle (term coined by Gartner) is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technolog...

In User-centric EA, users IT needs are met (timely and with quality solutions), while governance ensure that those needs are aligned with mi...

James Madison, Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American politician and the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817), ...

“24, last year’s most Emmy Award-winning television series with five Emmys, including Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Kiefer Suthe...

In the book, The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch, the author states how we can achieve more with less effort time and resources, simply ...

Architecture and Governance Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3 has a great piece on developing “Metrics that Matter”. The idea is that metrics are ...

Ben-Gurion was named one of Time Magazine 's 100 Most Important People of the Century. “Part Washington , part Moses, he was the archite...

This week Columbia University hosted a true demagogue to speak. The Wall Street Journal 25 September 2007 states in the editorial “Columbi...

User-centric EA is focused on the users, but also on the employees in the organization. In Fortune Magazine, 3 September 2007, Kip Tendell t...

“Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalytic school of psyc...

Organizational or corporate culture is “the specific collection of values and norms that are shared by people and groups in an organization...

The Wall Street Journal, 24 September 2007 reports that “ new [DIY] tools let businesspeople avoid the IT department and create their own co...

In User-centric EA, not only is human capital (individuals) important to the organization’s growth and development, but also groups or teams...

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), 19 September 2007 reported that SAP , the German technology giant (and world’s largest business software comp...

There was an interesting editorial in the Wall Street Journal, 19 September 2007 about the Book of Jonah (that we read on Yom Kippur). Jonah...

How powerful is the concept of information sharing—can information sharing even cure cancer? The Wall Street Journal, 18 September 2007...