It looks like Ukraine can be the Trap that the Western world has set up for Putin over many years. And Putin has just walked straight in. I will explain. Post World War 1, there was a single powerful empire in the world, the USA, and in the following decades…

Or, The International Day of Women and Girls in Science — February 11 A friend shared an experiment he performed on humans (no animals were harmed during the experiment). As a physics teacher (1), he started using female-centric references during his teaching. He did something as simple as using female…

The path to my current status is probably similar to that of other enterprise architects’: I started with a computer-related academic degree, Computer Science in my case, and over the years expanded my skills by taking additional professional courses. …

I am reversing the standard structure of this article because it is a bit lengthy: I placed the recommendations at the top, and then reintroduced the puzzle pieces and their current setbacks. Roughly based on the Business Architects Guild’s definition, the role of the business architect (B.A.) is to develop…

When asking any leader in any organization if he/she promotes innovation in their organization and the answer is a resounding “Yes!”. …

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. The cure for curiosity… there is no need for a cure for curiosity”. [My adaptation of Dorothy Parker’s original statement.] I always wondered what would happen if curiosity was a zero-sum game with cats. On the one hand, based on the number of memes…

Not too long ago, I joined a team to assist in realizing an important project. What I discovered will demonstrate the difference between PoC, Proof of Concept, and MVP, Minimum Viable Product. First, the non-dictionary definition: PoC is a test/experiment that is done to learn if the idea/project is doable. You probably will have only one PoC for the project. MVP is the most basic, fastest, and cheapest product that enables testing of a specific hypothesis if it is worth investing the resources. Meaning, it might…

A realistic tool to analyze the value of a department, IT in this case, within an organization. More than once I have had conversations with the executives of an organization about the operating and capital costs associated with the technology department. The issue of cost-effectiveness arises routinely. I get it: Though the cost of IT tangibles (computers, storage, etc.) …

A tool geared toward today’s need for efficient and speedy communication, while retaining some good old-fashioned etiquette. Delving into the details of Big Data sets can expose interesting patterns. For example, analysis of the text found in various loan applications on Prosper.com, a crowdsourcing lending platform, found specific indicators that predicted, in high probability, which customers would be most likely to pay back a loan. …