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

Enterprise Architecture helps to align business strategy and IT implementation. However, one of the big problems for IT these days is that i...

Corning is one of those successful companies that almost seem to defy logic. Perhaps best known by consumers for glassware and Pyrex, heat-r...

What is Information Technology? Well in simple terms its technology that enables information processing, storage, sharing, and accessibility...

I came across an excellent white paper by the National Association of the State CIOs (NASCIO) on IT governance that goes through the fundame...

Part of being a good leader is having a clear vision and the ability to articulate it. Harvard Business Review, December 2007, reports tha...

We’ve been hearing for years about our poor elementary and high school educational system in this country. For years, test scores have trail...

Enterprise architecture analyzes problem areas in an organization and identifies gap, redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities. It us...

In the Journal of Enterprise Architecture, February 2008, John Zachman, the father of EA, talks about core definitional elements of enterpri...

IT portfolio management (ITPfM) is the application of systematic management to large classes of items managed by enterprise Information Tec...

Enterprise architecture is about engineering the organization—people (the who), process (the how), and technology (as the enabler). Howeve...

A leader directs or guides and is in charge or commands others. Almost by definition, a leader must have followers. An enterprise architect ...

Architecture and Governance Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 1, has an article called “The Secrets of IT Success: Transforming Companies” that iden...

Ever wonder what happened to the old Polaroid cameras—you know point, click, shoot, and out pops your photo? Very cool technology for a soci...

Remember the TV shows The Bionic Man and Woman? These folks had implants that gave them amazing super-human strength, speed, hearing, and v...

Pepsi knows and practices User-centric Enterprise Architecture. They plan, develop, and manage their business to meet end-user needs, and th...

This week Microsoft said they had a big announcement, and that it wasn’t about Yahoo! It turns out that Microsoft decided to reveal some of ...

What is one, if not the biggest fear, with putting data on a computer? Yes, that the hard drive crashes #@$% &!! Well a new bred of har...

Enterprise architecture is about planning and governance; it is a leadership function. But after this comes execution — implementation; a ma...

Who doesn’t get a little frustrated at the length of time for booting up a computer? MIT Technology Review, 16 January 2008 , states ...

Modeling business processes, information flows, and the systems that serve up that information is core to developing enterprise architecture...