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

So I had the opportunity to sit in on a colleague teaching a class in Performance Improvement.  One tool that I really liked from th...

So I was teaching a class in Enterprise Architecture and IT Governance this week.  In one of the class exercises, one of the students pr...

Just wanted to share this beautiful Fall scene in Maryland. While we are about to embark on a major infrastructure spending spree to mak...

There is an interesting new crowdsourcing application called  Seesaw . And like a seesaw goes up and down, you can take a picture and cr...

There are lots of biases that can get in the way of sound decision-making . An very good article in Harvard Business Review (June 2011)...

The pendulum has definitely swung—our personal and home technology is now often better than what we are using in the office. It wasn’t a...

In enterprise architecture, we develop IT targets and plans for the organization, but these are usually not tested in any meaningful or sign...

Some people say power is primarily exerted through military might (“ hard power ”), others says it is through use of diplomacy—communicati...

It’s a crazy world out there. Just about every argument a counter-argument, every theory a contrary theory, every point a counter-point: whe...

We all want to know where IT is going in the future, what the trends are, so we can meet our future in it head-on. CIO Magazine, 1 May 200...

“IT portfolio management is the application of systematic management to large classes of items managed by enterprise information technology...