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

A must read… The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam presents a topic near and dear to me: the power of Visual Thinking. Visual thinking —"...

Human capital is one of the most important and overlooked aspects of enterprise architecture. With all the business process acumen and sl...

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

I came across an interesting IT Governance Global Status Report 2008 from the IT Governance Institute. The study and report was conducte...

Just wanted to thank Jonas Lamis for posting my guest blog, " Fear, Greed, and Enterprise Architecture ," on the Architecture ...

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...

To become a great CIO or a great anything, what is the driving factor—talent or determination? Fortune Magazine, 27 October 2008, has a bo...

CIOs have a number of options with respect to upgrading their enterprise’s information technology. Military Technology Magazine, Volume 12,...

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Andy Blumenthal Presents User-centric Enterprise Architecture View more documents from ablumen .

The Wall Street Journal, 21 October 2008, reports some shocking statistics on high school dropouts. “In the nation’s 50 largest cities, th...

See video on Department of Defense (DoD) vision for Net-Centricity: Source: Department of Defense

How should a CIO allocate their time between strategy and operations? Some CIOs are all operations; they are concerned solely with the ut...

http://sundrania.com/uploads/photos/332.jpg Ever wonder about the crazy system messages you get when something isn't working right. Li...

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

David F. D’Allesandro, the CEO of John Hancock insurance group has a bunch of wonderful books on building brand and career, such as “Brand W...

We all know the story of David and Goliath, where little David slays the monstrous adversary from the Philistines, Goliath. From a religio...

Watch out enterprise architects…holographic technology is coming your way. CNN reported on 6 October 2008 that “Holographic television to ...

Leaders wield power through many means: formal authority, control of scarce resources, use of structures, rules, and regulations, control ...

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