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

I like this saying and wanted to share it: "The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately." Yes, this is the home o...

Education is fundamental to learning, development and preparation for career and life.  We've always believed that if you invest in...

So I was in the Apple store recently and made a purchase to upgrade some technology. Afterwards, I got an email asking: "How wa...

So I took this photo yesterday of a lady on the Metro reading The Happiness Project . The book is a multi-year bestseller about the purs...

So Amazon should be renamed Amazing, because they are. They are the best online retailer--love 'em! SELECTION: Amazon has everyt...

Really liked this performance measurement and transparency at Home Depot. Here are their store performance measures prominently displaye...

I have a new article in Public CIO Magazine about working to perfect ourselves in an imperfect world. Please read the article here  onli...

Whether you call it feedback or performance measurement, we all need information on how we are doing in order to keep doing better ove...

Check out this great video on Mobile Business Intelligence (BI) put out by MicroStrategy (Note: this is not an endorsement of any particula...

Is technology progress measured by how far we've come or by what remains to be achieved? The Wall Street Journal (9-10, October 2010) ra...

There is the old adage that you can only manage what you measure . The problem is that most IT organizations either aren’t measuring much...

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...

NextGov reported on 9 Nov 2009, that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report that “forecasts $3 billion in cost overrun...

It is pretty hard to give and to get honest feedback. It is often acknowledged that performance reviews are one of the most difficult task f...

Too many organizations espouse good service, but very few actually excel and deliver on the promise. However, one company is so good at ...

IT projects are notorious for coming in late, over cost, and not meeting the customer’s needs. CIO.com has an excellent article on ways to...

To become a great CIO or a great anything, what is the driving factor—talent or determination? Fortune Magazine, 27 October 2008, has a bo...