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

So I am at this place of business this evening, and I overhear someone trying to apply for a job. Note, I feel bad for the guy who is ...

Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal on Moments of Impact-- corporate strategy meetings.  The authors, Ertel and Solomo...

According to an article in Mental Floss (November/December 2011) engineers at the Advanced Dynamics Laboratory in Australia in 1996 research...

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...

David Siegel has written a book called “Pull: The Power of the Semantic Web To Transform Your Business” (Dec. 2009). The main idea is tha...

People are selfish; they think in terms of win-lose, not win-win. The cost of this kind of thinking is increasingly unacceptable in a world ...

Thinking “out of the box” is fundamental to free us from the prevailing status quo. Brainstorming can enable us to tackle problems creativel...

It’s intuitive that organizations should manage oriented to serve their customers, because it’s the customers who keep them in business. Yet...

Decision-making is something we have to do every day as individuals and as organizations, yet often we end up making some very bad decisio...

User-centric EA analyzes problem areas in the organization and uncovers gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and opportunities; EA uses this ...

Organizations are intrinsically political systems, “in the sense that ways must be found to create order and direction among people with pot...

The Total CIO is responsible for the strategy, operations, and governance of everything IT. The strategy ensures that we are doing the ri...

An important way to share law enforcement and intelligence information in a physical setting is through fusion centers. Government Technol...

When a disaster or emergency strikes, who is in charge—federal, state, local, or tribal authorities? Police, fire, rescue, medical services,...

Enterprise architecture is about planning, managing, and measuring change in an organization. To effect change requires true leadership, and...

One of enterprise architecture’s “targets” is to transform the organization from being purely monolithic, functional-based silos (like opera...