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

Enterprise architecture in its current form is due for a review by the next administration—McCain or Obama. Will EA be the same under the ...

Intel is one of the most amazing companies. They are the world’s largest semiconductor company, and the inventor of the popular x86 micropro...

All too often, when there are issues in our organizations, we treat the symptoms instead of the problems. Just like this is bad medicine in ...

Operational efficiency can be the downfall of customer service. Home Depot, with approximately $80 billion in sales is #22 on the Fortune ...

CIO Magazine, 15 July 2008, has an interesting article called “A Tangled Paths for Macs in the Enterprise.” The question posed: is it time...

The constitution, as we all know, sets up a wonderful form of government with three branches--the legislative, executive, and judicial--whic...

From the financial and credit crisis, to soaring energy prices, job losses, foreclosures, and run-away inflation, people’s investment portfo...

There was a terrific keynote at the 1105 Government Information Group enterprise architecture conference this week in Washington, DC by Mr. ...

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...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Andy Blumenthal Presents How Enterprise Architecture Shapes IT Governance View more Microsoft Word d...

MSNBC on 24 April 2007 reported: “ through a shrewd combination of investing in environment-friendly vehicles, offering sharp new models and...

Cloud computing —“ a style of computing where IT-related capabilities are provided ‘as a service’, allowing users to access technology-enabl...

The Wall Street Journal, 2 September 2008 reports that Electronic Arts is releasing this week, “Spore, one of the most talked-about titles i...

There is an interesting article in Harvard Business Review, June 2008, on “The Secrets to Successful Strategy Execution.” (Gary Nielson, Kar...

Ranked as one of the most innovative companies in the world, IDEO is an innovation and design firm, founded in 1991 . Its client list includ...

Should the U.S. federal government have a Chief Information Officer (CIO) and/or a Chief Technology Officer? “The chief information offic...

Harvard Business Review (HBR), June 2008, has a wonderful article (by Ric Merrifield, Jack Calhoun, and Dennis Stevens) on how SOA is “the n...

Setting standards help us to reduce complexity, contain costs, build interoperability, and secure the enterprise. T he Air Force is leadin...

Burton Group released a report entitled “ Establishing and Maintaining Enterprise Architecture Momentum ” on 8 August 2008. Some key point...

Years ago, we heard the mantra that paper was going to go away and we were entering the age of the paperless society. But this vision has n...

ComputerWorld, 21 August 2008 reports on a news article in the Wall Street Journal that “ Microsoft hires Seinfeld to bite Apple .” “Conti...