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

New article here by Andy Blumenthal in Public CIO Magazine called "Using Enterprise and Personal Architecture To Chart Your Cours...

An article in CIO Magazine (1 March 2012) describes the term "CIO Squared" as "the combination of chief information offic...

There are a lot of jokes about being a CIO—it is one of the toughest professional level jobs and has a high turnover rate (average is bar...

Really grateful to be honored this week by CIO Magazine with 2010 "Ones To Watch Award." Also, met some tremendously smart...

What is conflict? In the book Images of Organization by Gareth Morgan, the author states “ Conflict arises whenever interests collide …what...

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

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...

As enterprise architects, we need to have clarity of vision to see what is and to chart a way ahead for the organization. Yet, we live ami...

To manage IT, you’ve got to have investment reviews, but when is it too much or not effective? There are a number of executives (CXO’s)...

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) is the executive in charge of information technology in an organization. All information systems design,...

One of the most difficult challenges we face as enterprise architects is when end-users don’t ask permission, but instead ask forgiveness. ...

Strategy (read EA) and operations are two sides of the same coin — both ultimately seek to provide service and support to the end-user — and...

Typically, EA is a program situated under the Chief Information Officer (CIO) i.e. in the Information Technology department. However, to max...