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

I am marveling at the Genius of Amazon and Jeff Bezos but also concerned about their future direction.  Traditionally, they have inves...

Thank you to Rabbi Haim Ovadia for his speech today at Magen David Synagogue on the topic of how our forefathers in the Bible were plann...

I love this desk doodad that I found in the gallery.  Two guys perched at opposite ends of a strewn out ladder, balancing precariously o...

Russia (and many others countries) develop some really kick-a*s weapons--especially, when they are so simple, yet so devastatingly effecti...

How many of you feel sort of disgusting every time you take out the trash with bottles and containers? According to Earth911, only 27% o...

There is a very good interview in the Wall Street Journal today (14-15 July 2012) with George Shultz, former Secretary of State, Treas...

A couple of hours ago, Nokia's debt was downgraded by Moody's to Junk! Nokia was once the world largest vendor for mo...

Recently, I've been watching a terrific series called America: The Story of Us (12 episodes)--from the History Channel.  It is...

I have a new article called "Leadership for Lasting Change." "Usually organizational turnaround don't happen by them...

ABC News reported tonight of a home builder in Montana making a house entirely from American made products --as difficult as they are to...

I wouldn't necessarily think of Heinz as a poster child for a company that is strategic and growing, and was therefore, somewhat surp...

What an inspiring story this week about Jim Brozina and his daughter Alice Ozma. Jim's wife left him when Alice was ten years old. An...

For many years, we have witnessed the failures of excessively product-driven management , where companies focus on the development and sales...

Recently there was some media interest in the government system of funding allocation, which essentially rests on one principle: “Use it o...

When we architect change, we have to build in the transition plan for how to get from point A to point B. The problem with most enterprise a...

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

Should the CIO focus on day-to-day operational issues or on IT strategic planning and governance issues? From my experience many are focus...

All too often, when there are issues in our organizations, we treat the symptoms instead of the problems. Just like this is bad medicine in ...

As an enterprise architect, I have always wondered about the trend of outsourcing our manufacturing jobs out of country-- where as a nation ...

Traditionally, the Marines are known for their rapid, hit hard capabilities. They are a highly mobile force trained to transport quickly on ...