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

S ubliminal message—“ a signal or message embedded in another object, designed to pass below the normal limits of perception. These messages...

Milgram experiment —“a seminal series of social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which meas...

The Wall Street Journal, 22 October 2007 reports on a debate between the CIO of Highmark Inc. (a business education corporation) and the CIO...

User-centric EA helps lead to a "gung ho" successful enterprise. In the book Gung Ho by Ken Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, the aut...

MIT Technology Review, 29 October 2007 in an article entitled, “The Semantic Web Goes Mainstream,” reports that a new free web-based tool ca...

Six Sigma is a set of practices originally developed by Motorola to systematically improve processes by eliminating defects. A defect is de...

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological differences according to...

George Paras, Editor of Architecture and Governance Magazine states that EA is an art and a science, and I agree with him. EA needs to ...

“The Hawthorne effect— refers to a phenomenon which is thought to occur when people observed during a research study temporarily change the...

In Working Knowledge for Business Leaders by Harvard Business School, in the article “Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator” by Malhotra ...

User-centric EA seeks to develop an organization both through integration and differentiation. In Lawrence and Lorsch's groundbreaking w...

The Wall Street Journal, 25 October 207 reports that Apple’s new operating system (OS), Leopard, is “faster, easier than [Microsoft’s] Vist...

While I know that Hitler was a despicable human being (if he even was a human being) and that I’m pushing the limits on the discussion on en...

The Wall Street Journal, 8 October 2007 reported that IBM and Google “are starting a program on college campuses to promote computer program...

Feng Shui, which literally means earth and water, is typically a way of “arranging living quarters with optimal comfort for mind and body.” ...

John Zachman Lectures on Enterprise Architecture:

What is Service Oriented Architecture?

The Wall Street Journal, 11 October 2007 reports that “in boardrooms these days, it is rare—perhaps too rare—for old-timers voices to be h...

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the executive in charge of information technology in an organization. All information systems design,...

There are a number of prominent issues or concerns that many users seem to voice or have about EA (and I have seen these as common across mo...

In MIT Technology Review, 26 September 2007, in an article entitled “The Future of Computing, According to Intel” by Kate Green, the author ...

The Wall Street Journal, 17 October 2007 reports that Linux is “barely scrapping a single percentage point of the market share” for desktop ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist, best known for his role as the director o...

One of the most difficult challenges we face as enterprise architects is when end-users don’t ask permission, but instead ask forgiveness. ...

Fortune Magazine, 1 October 2007, reports on the world’s best companies are finding out that “no matter what business they’re in, their real...

User-centric Enterprise Architecture supports the development of a meaningful IT strategic plan for the organization. Based on my experien...

The Wall Street Journal 25 September 2007 reports on a new model being called the “wave of the future”, where IT projects are rolled out “on...

Sun Tsu (544 BC – 496 BC) is the author of The Art of War (an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy). The followi...