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

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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...

We spend $600 billion on defense and this is what we get? In the middle of the night our U.S. Navy DESTROYER crashes with a ginormous con...

Popular Science (28 January 2013) has an interesting article on "How To Save The Electrical Grid." Power use has skyrocketed ...

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...

A number of weeks ago, I was at a CTO Event in DC and got to hear from colleagues about their thoughts on various technologies and IT trends...

How many of you ever wondered why we continue to use dollar bills and coins when we have credit and debit cards that make cash virtually o...

The debate on the news, in the streets, and on the Hill these days is health care reform—getting insurance coverage for those who lack ...

There are no CIOs in space. At least not yet. Someday, as we colonize space, there will be. And information technology will be more importan...

Vision is often the telltale demarcation between a leader and a manager. A manager knows how to climb a ladder, but a leader knows where the...

CIOs have a number of options with respect to upgrading their enterprise’s information technology. Military Technology Magazine, Volume 12,...

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

Leaders wield power through many means: formal authority, control of scarce resources, use of structures, rules, and regulations, control ...

Enterprise architecture seeks to simplify organizational complexity through both business processes reengineering and technology enablement....