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

There is a better way to showing customer love than inundating them with marketing and communications that are not coordinated, not focused,...

Information management is the key to any enterprise architecture. Information is the nexus between the business and technical component...

Everyone likes to have things personalized for them. Personalization appeals to our desire to be unique and distinct—special in our own ways...

Here is the target architecture for information sharing: An interesting document I read presented these five steps to architecting data...

"[ Virtualization is] a technique for hiding the physical characteristics of computing resources from the way in which other systems, ...

Enterprise architecture makes information visible to enable better decision making in the organization. One tool to help do this is the exec...

Security is a cross-cutting perspective in Enterprise Architecture, but I treat it as its own EA perspective because of its importance. And ...

Glocal is a combination of the words global and local. It is a best practice in business where organizations conducts business operations gl...

Customer service is so important. We need to architect it in every fiber of the organization. Good customer service is a critical differenti...

Enterprise architecture is about managing change and complexity in the organization. EA establishes the roadmap to evolve, transform and rem...

“The notion of creative destruction is found in the writings of Mikhail Bakunin, Friedrich Nietzsche and in Werner Sombart's Krieg und ...

There is an age old question whether we make our own fate or whether it is predetermined. For thousands of years, people have turned to...

IT governance is often implemented with the establishment of an IT Investment Review Board (IRB) and Enterprise Architecture Board (EAB); bu...

We all know that enterprise architecture is a strategic-level synthesis of business and technology information to drive enhanced decision...

Good customer service is worth its weight in gold and indeed, many people are willing to pay extra for this. In fact, I would venture t...

These days, everyone likes to think that they are an architect and the ways things are going, soon this may become a reality. ComputerWorld...

When you log on at work, many of you probably—know it or not--click on an acknowledgement that you consent to monitoring of your activities....

“Ergonomics (or human factors ) is the application of scientific information concerning objects, systems and environment for human use…Ergo...

Here is an interesting list of 10 obstacles to the enterprise architecture from a colleague and friend, Andy Wasser, Associate Dean, Carnegi...

There are several disaster preparedness exercises that test and train our government and private sector partners’ ability to respond to inci...

Fear and greed can have a huge influence on our decision making processes. Rather than making rational, informed decisions, we are driven by...