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

Ranked as one of the most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is an innovation and design firm, founded in 1991 . Its client list includ...

Should the U.S. federal government have a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and/or a Chief Technology Officer? “The chief information offic...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), June 2008, has a wonderful article (by Ric Merrifield, Jack Calhoun, and Dennis Stevens) on how SOA is “the n...

Setting standards help us to reduce complexity, contain costs, build interoperability, and secure the enterprise. T he Air Force is leadin...

Burton Group released a report entitled “ Establishing and Maintaining Enterprise Architecture Momentum ” on 8 August 2008. Some key point...

Years ago, we heard the mantra that paper was going to go away and we were entering the age of the paperless society. But this vision has n...

ComputerWorld, 21 August 2008 reports on a news article in the Wall Street Journal that “ Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple .” “Conti...

A critical component of User-centric Enterprise Architecture is designing technology solutions to meet end-user requirements, and this inclu...

Based on a number of studies done in the last 10 years (such as The KPMG Canada Study, The Chaos Report and others), it has been established...

A very interesting article in ComputerWorld, 7 August 2008, called "Bet on it; Employee wagers help companies predict the future ,...

Information availability and communication mobility is all the craze. We are connected everywhere we go. We have our phones, PDAs, and lapto...

When people work from home, should their employers simply set performance goals for them and then evaluate them based on whether or not they...

Enterprise architecture can plan, but it must also perform outreach to meet stakeholder requirements and get their buy-in and commitment. A ...

EA is a tool for situational awareness and planning to drive modernization, transformation, and improved results . Enterprise architecture h...

General Electric (GE) is one of the largest, most successful, and most respected companies in the world. What lessons can we learn from thei...

Information is central to the Department of Defense’s arsenal for fighting and defeating our enemies and the ability to share information ac...

Public CIO Magazine, June/July 2008, has some interesting articles on what it takes to be a next generation CIO (and many of these have to d...

There is a terrific article in ComputerWorld, 17 July 2008, called “Pentagon’s IT unit seeks to borrow tech ideas from Google, Amazon, other...

The premise of User-centric Enterprise Architecture is to transform traditional EA, which is often user-blind, and which develops “artifacts...

The enterprise architecture change process starts with requirements generation and management. Requirements become business cases and busine...

For architecting the enterprise, we need good ideas to mature, evolve, and innovate. And good ideas can come from literally anywhere, so we ...

Perhaps many of you have wondered what the relationship is between the IT Strategic Plan and the Enterprise Architecture Transition Plan? Wh...