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

Thought this was an interesting analogy.  A colleague refers to some customers as snowflakes. At first, I didn't get it.  Then I...

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

A strategist frequently has to temper the desire for structured planning and strategic decision making with the reality of organizational li...

Many organizations seek transformation. They are mired in paper even though we as a society have long moved to a digital age. They are orga...

Organizations are intrinsically political systems, “in the sense that ways must be found to create order and direction among people with pot...

For CIOs, one of the secrets of the trade for building cost efficiency is consolidation of IT assets, such as data centers and help desks. O...

The world economy is globalizing, but sales and marketing is still a local activity. How should organizations architect the way forward to a...

While User-centric EA seeks to provide useful and useable products and services to the end-user, the heavy customization of major applicatio...

When I worked at the United States Department of the Treasury in 2002, there was a real push by Secretary Paul O’Neil for enterprise solutio...