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

Thought this was novel in the store.  They have a digital calendar with the date from 21 years ago. It says: To Purchase Tobacco Pro...

We've all drunk the Kool-Aid and believe in using the cloud. And with almost 1 million active apps alone in the Apple Store it is n...

A lot of colleagues tell me that they hate office politics , and for many it represents their one-way ticket to ongoing bickering, infig...

An article in CIO Magazine (1 March 2012) describes the term "CIO Squared" as "the combination of chief information offic...

Last week (19 October 2011) T3 Motion Inc. in CA launched their all electric Non-Lethal Response Vehicle (NLRV) for "crowd control....

For July 4th, we headed down to the D.C. Folk Life Festival today on the Washington Mall. The Peace Corps had a number of exhibits at th...

Love this concept on Civic Commons that was presented at the Gov 2.0 Summit (2010) and is now becoming a reality. Presented by Bryan Sivak...

Center of Gravity (COG) is a military concept that Dr. Joseph Strange defines as “primary sources of moral or physical strength, power, and ...

Being in a technical field like IT, we often see disconnects between the “techies” and the business people—almost like they are speaking f...

At an enterprise architecture conference a number of weeks ago, the audience was asked how many of you see yourself as technology people—abo...

Recently, I heard a colleague say that we should view IT not as a cost center, but as a resource center—and I really liked that. In fact...

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

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

CIOs are consumed by day-to-day tactical/operational IT issues and firefighting IT problems, and as a result, there is a lack of focus on IT...

As you all know, I have been leading and promoting the concept of User-centric Enterprise Architecture for some time now. After hundreds of ...