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

One of the things that make an organization (or a person) succeed or fail is its ability to learn and grow. A child learns at home and in ...

One of the ways that traditional enterprise architectures often goes awry is when the enterprise architects hole up in their ivory tower to ...

Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was an amazing pioneer and futurist of computers, and here are some lasting lessons. COMPUTER: Computer ...

I read a great little book today called Made to stick by Chip and Dan Heath about "Why some ideas survive and others die." A...

What’s more important speed or accuracy when it comes to developing and implementing a enterprise architecture?’ On one hand, if your targ...

Recently, I took the leap from Yahoo! and added a Gmail Account. For a long time, I thought, “What can be the difference? E-mail is e-mail.”...

IT projects are notorious for coming in late, over cost, and not meeting the customer’s needs. CIO.com has an excellent article on ways to...

Human capital is such a critical aspect of our enterprises, yet in typical enterprise architectures (traditionally focused on IT and if we’r...

How many of you know people at work whose desk’s are BIG dumping grounds for papers, magazines, office supplies, coffee cups, knickknacks, a...

It’s a crazy world out there. Just about every argument a counter-argument, every theory a contrary theory, every point a counter-point: whe...

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,...