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

Please see my new article in The Times of Israel called " Jewish Unity Is Strength ." It didn’t matter what race or nationality t...

This is a quick breakdown of the 3 types of Project Management Offices (PMOs). Enabling (Supportive) — Provides best practices, templat...

This is a beautiful set of nested brass weights from France.  It dates back to 1852! The weights range from 1 gram to 500 grams.  T...

So good today to visit the NIST Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) . The cybersecurity solutions developed are aligned to ...

So this is a funny story from today. I had a wonderful opportunity to tour a couple of labs at NIST today. One of them does work in co...

So I learned that Metrology is the science of measurement.  And measurement is the foundation of scientific research and creating stand...

Christopher Mims in the Wall Street Journal  makes the case for letting employees go rogue with IT purchases. It's cheaper, it...

As a kid, I was all too familiar with factory settings--my dad worked in one.  Dad is an incredibly persistent hard worker who went to t...

Wanted to share two unrelated, but noteworthy items from my week so far... First, this tree went down right in the middle of traffic in ...

Here are three perspectives on how we can speed up the innovation cycle and get great new ideas to market more quickly: 1)  Coordinati...

The best article I have seen on the subject of Electronic Health Records (EHR) was in Bloomberg BusinessWeek (21 June 2012) called ...

Interesting book review in the Wall Street Journal (18 January 2012) on Standards: Recipes for Reality by Lawrence Busch. Standards ...

From potholes to garbage, broken street lights to vandalism...we want to get our community problems resolved. There is a...

There is a huge need for speed on our networks —as we demand the latest and greatest download streaming of books, movies, games, and more....

So much for letting the best product win. According to the Wall Street Journal, 13-14 March 2010, Microsoft is forcing their employees to “...

What happens when one set of enterprise architects can’t read another’s enterprise architecture “artifacts”? This may sound ridiculous, b...

"Saying he was 'deeply sorry and ashamed,' Bernard Madoff pleaded guilty Thursday to pulling off perhaps the biggest swindle in...

Here is the target architecture for information sharing: An interesting document I read presented these five steps to architecting data...

Ever wonder what happened to the old Polaroid cameras—you know point, click, shoot, and out pops your photo? Very cool technology for a soci...

A key foundation to developing enterprise architecture is getting the EA terms and taxonomy right for the organization, so that there is a c...