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

See new article in Architecture and Governance Magazine on: IT Planning, Governance and the CIO: Why a Structured Approach Is Critical to L...

Recently, Kshemendra Paul, Chief Enterprise Architect, at the President's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) made the following criti...

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Ever since (and realistically way before) Fredrick Taylor’s time and motion studies, employers have looked to “engineer” the way employees d...

For years, the IT industry has been putting out more and more devices to help us communicate, access and analyze information, conduct eComme...

See my CIO Magazine article: Encourage Social Networking, Without Discouraging In-Person Meetings Appreciate any comments.

Times are tough. The economy is in tatters. People have lost confidence, savings, jobs, and in many cases, even their homes. So, fear is per...

What is the role of the Federal Chief Technology Officer (CTO) that we are anxiously awaiting to be announced soon in the President-elect Ob...

Where has enterprise architecture gone wrong at General Motors? THEN: In 1954, GM’s U.S. auto market share reached 54%; in 1979, their numb...

Click here for YouTube post on User-centric Enterprise Architecture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkRgh8mjbpM Enjoy and I appreciate your...

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...