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

Wow, I couldn't believe that this is a real word. Automagically. I thought my colleague was using it as a gag.  But when I asked...

So working in a place with scientific geniuses and even a history of Nobel Prize winners is serious business.  I see things that I don...

So change agents are some of the most sought after...yet most abhorrent individuals on this planet.  We all recognize that things can be...

Flowcharts have been used for quite some time for visualizing and organizing business processes and making them more efficient (e.g. busine...

Paper has been around for approximately two thousand years, since it's invention in China, and it has served as the medium of choi...

Yet another air traffic controller asleep on the job today --OMG. Everyone is upset--as they should be-- safety and lives are at stake. Hell...

I am fascinated by unusual uses of technology. And in fact, that’s what I love about technology—is that it literally applies to every aspect...

I was on vacation in Miami last week and had the opportunity to spend some time (when not on the beach and in the pool) in one of my favorit...

Improving organizational performance is often grounded in identifying bottlenecks (constraints) and fixing them , so that the firm runs bett...

Last week, there was a 13-year-old boy, with Asperger’s syndrome, who ran away from home and rode away in the NYC subway system for 11 days ...

There is the old saying that rings true to basic leadership: “Keep it Simple Stupid,” (or KISS) yet for various reasons people and organiz...

User-centric EA analyzes problem areas in the organization and uncovers gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities; EA uses this ...

At the Gartner Enterprise Architecture Summit this past week (October 7-9, 2009), I heard about this new math for value creation: Nothin...

Mission execution and performance results are the highest goals of enterprise architecture. In the book Leadership by Rudolph Giuliani, he...

IT projects are notorious for coming in late, over cost, and not meeting the customer’s needs. CIO.com has an excellent article on ways to...

The Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2008, reports some shocking statistics on high school dropouts. “In the nation’s 50 largest cities, th...

As you all know, I have been leading and promoting the concept of User-centric Enterprise Architecture for some time now. After hundreds of ...