Andy (Avraham) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

It's wonderful when we try to help others. Isn't that one of the reasons we're here?  But sometimes we are trying to ...

I saw this quote hanging on the wall.  It's by science fiction writer, Robert Anson Heinlein. "A human being should be able t...

So there are some mighty impressive places to work that really shine in terms of the technology they use and the constant desire to upgrad...

So I used to have a boss who said something really funny. He used to go, "Everybody says they want to help us" and then bemoan...

My colleague at work has an incredible mask of the Predator.  Quite a frightening looking creature--that in Hollywood only Arnold Sc...

This is the DARPA Pet-Proto Robot (a predecessor to the Atlas model) showing some pretty cool initial operating capabilities for navigatin...

This last week, we learned of the new defense policy that shifts the U.S. from a full two war capability to a "win-spoil" p...

Great question raised by ABC News on why can't we contact 911 using texting (except for Black Hawk County, Iowa--population 130,00...

Center of Gravity (COG) is a military concept that Dr. Joseph Strange defines as “primary sources of moral or physical strength, power, and ...

There continues to be a significant shortfall in our cyber security capabilities, and this is something that needs our determined efforts to...

These are my remarks from the MeriTalk Innovation Nation 2010 Conference , "Edge Warrior" Panel today. I was the Moderator and thi...

Real planning is hard work. I’m not talking about the traditional—get the management team together, offsite for a few hours or days and spe...

How should a CIO allocate their time between strategy and operations? Some CIOs are all operations; they are concerned solely with the ut...

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

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

Requirements management is critical to developing enterprise architecture. Without identifying, understanding, and rationalizing the organiz...

In the book Translating Strategy into Action , by Duke Corporate Education, the authors provide numerous insights into strategy development ...