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

Generally, IT governance is based on the assumption that by vetting decisions in groups or boards—such as an Enterprise Architecture Board o...

There are scarce dollars for investment purposes and many competing alternatives to invest in. Therefore, organizations must make wise inves...

"Only seven percent of what we say is conveyed through words. Tone and visual cues make up the other 93 percent. That is why email mess...

CBS News Video: "ATF students learn how to investigate bomb explosions by seeing them firsthand. In training, actual bombs are detonate...

Executives, such as CIOs, need to surround themselves with plenty of smart and talented people to be successful leaders. Even the greatest o...

When we architect change, we have to build in the transition plan for how to get from point A to point B. The problem with most enterprise a...

An action by a lone decision maker may be quick and life-saving as in response to extreme fear or stress, when a person must in a split seco...

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')....