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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " L'Chaim for Body and Soul ." Everything that happens in this world h...

I always love on the court television show Judge Hatchett, when she tells people: "I expect great things from you!" The Pygmalion ...

A Federal Enterprise Architecture Board (FEAB) would provide “teeth” to further implementing enterprise architecture across government....

Decision-making is something we have to do every day as individuals and as organizations, yet often we end up making some very bad decisio...

Recently, I was reminded of two pointers in developing an effective IT strategic plan: Strategic planning is about leadership and setting d...

The last thing any executive should be doing is getting caught up in the weeds of management. The executive needs to lead and define th...

See new article in Architecture and Governance Magazine on: IT Planning, Governance and the CIO: Why a Structured Approach Is Critical to L...

CIOs are consumed by day-to-day tactical/operational IT issues and firefighting IT problems, and as a result, there is a lack of focus on IT...

Operational efficiency can be the downfall of customer service. Home Depot, with approximately $80 billion in sales is #22 on the Fortune ...

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

Enterprise architecture is about planning, managing, and measuring change in an organization. To effect change requires true leadership, and...

Enterprise architecture develops the organization’s baseline and target architecture and transition plan. EA is an endeavor of change and tr...

User-centric EA seeks to align the various life cycle IT system processes to help users understand, navigate, and complete these as simply a...