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

Innovation is powerful, and with power comes responsibility. When we think creatively and “out of the box”, we break the mental bounds tha...

It’s amazing to me that organizations and people still miss the basic premise that underlies any successful business and that is good custom...

We’ve all been there asking why we missed the signs while others saw them head-on and benefited in some way. This happens with financial in...

I have always been fascinated by leadership and how to grow an organization in spite of a broad variety of obstacles to change and maturity....

I remember learning in religious day school that people are half spiritual beings and half animal and that it was a person’s duty (or test i...

Leadership is all about people. In the simplest terms, you can’t be a leader without followers. And to inspire and motivate people to follo...

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

We can build systems that are stand-alone and require lots of hands-on monitoring, care, and feeding or we can create systems that are smart...

“The consequences of not managing risk have hit Americans square in the jaw.”-- Government Executive magazine, March 2009 Too often CIOs ...

In the Star Trek series Voyager, the (cyb)Borg wants to assimilate everyone (literally every species and they are given numbers to keep trac...

Cloud computing is "shorthand for centralized computing services that are delivered over the Internet (a.k.a. the 'cloud')....

There are no CIOs in space. At least not yet. Someday, as we colonize space, there will be. And information technology will be more importan...

Recently, I was interviewed on the subject of Security Architecture and was given permission to share the Q&A: In general, what kinds of...

When companies get cozy, the marketplace gets innovative and from out of nowhere...a disruptive technology upends things. We've seen th...

It’s easy to get into a rut and just follow the status quo that we’re used to. People do it all the time. It’s doing what we know. It’s co...

Being a CIO is not just about information technology—IT is a service. The real job of a CIO is truly understanding the IT needs of their cu...

Just something I am thinking about... Per Wall Street Journal, 14-15 February 2008, Stimulus Plan = 1,073 pages . Imagine this...alternative...