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

“Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor ) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan fr...

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969), nicknamed " Ike ", was a five-star General in the United States Arm...

Design, style, and innovation are important communication mechanisms and are crucial to User-centric EA. These communication mechanisms ar...

Well this is interesting to write: a blog about blogging ;-) Blogs are becoming a great new tool for enterprise communications and an ...

Anyone who has lost information on their computer knows how important backing up your computer work is, and organizations spend large sums o...

Human capital is one of the perspectives of enterprise architecture that I have been advocating for the Federal Enterprise Architecture to a...

Enterprise architecture, as John Zachman said, is about managing change and complexity. Naomi Karten has an interesting op-ed in ComputerW...

A business analyst or "BA" is responsible for analyzing the business needs of their clients and stakeholders to help identify bus...

One of the issues facing IT professionals these days isn’t a scarcity of IT frameworks, but rather many good frameworks that can be in confl...

Isn’t it every kids’ dream to own a car? And who can’t wait to take their first driving lessons? The Wall Street Journal, 29 February 2008...

The best way to find out what the end-user wants is to ask them. The Wall Street Journal, 25 January 2008 reports on Ask.com that “Ask Sea...

When we log on at work, most if not of us get some sort of message that logging on connotes acknowledgment to monitoring and that there is n...

Both EA and ITIL are emerging disciplines that are growing in importance and impact. Here are their basic definitions: EA synthesizes b...

Our economy is heavily based on ensuring a competitive environment to drive innovation, cost-competition, and consumer value. One of t...

User-centric Enterprise architecture captures organizational information, analyzes it, and classifies it, and serves it up to the end user i...

We all know that information is vital to making sound and timely decisions. How do we govern information (the term information to include da...

As those of you who are regular readers of this blog know, I am a proponent for a human capital perspective for the Federal Enterprise Archi...

Anyone who has seen the amount of homework and stress our children are under these days would have to admit that our children are losing the...

“IT portfolio management is the application of systematic management to large classes of items managed by enterprise information technology...

Enterprise architecture is about managing change in the organization; however, there comes a time in our lives when there is an unprecedente...

More and more people are turning to gaming for entertainment, social interaction, some thrills and fun and even some challenge. Many in...

Internet Protocol version 6 ( IPv6 ) is a network layer for packet-switched internetworks. It is designated as the successor of IPv4, the c...

Business process management is part of enterprise architecture. Enterprise architecture is often equated with IT architecture. This is incor...