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

Recently there was some media interest in the government system of funding allocation, which essentially rests on one principle: “Use it o...

I could not help being amazed with the article in this weekend’s Wall Street Journal called “On the Street and On Facebook: The Homeless S...

We see change coming. We hear change coming. We feel change coming. But what happens? It does not come. Why? 1.      Fear —people are af...

In enterprise architecture, we routinely plan for new information technologies and not enterprise anything. In fact, what we now interpret a...

(Tikkun Olam) We are placed here on this earth, figuratively in G-d's "hand," and our job is to build (and rebuild) until it...

The last thing any executive should be doing is getting caught up in the weeds of management. The executive needs to lead and define th...

A soldier with an iPod mounted on his wrist takes aim with his assault rifle http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iphones-in-...

T he Holy Grail in communications has always been the drive to unify our messaging (data, voice, video) into a single device. To this da...

Conventional wisdom has it that there are two primary types of leaders: one is focused on the work (task-oriented) and the other is focuse...

Lessons learned: The more things change, the more they stay the same; even though the technologies may change, the people and process issues...

Anyone following the strategic acquisitions by Oracle the last few years can see a very clear trend: Oracle is amassing a treasure-trove of...

Too many organizations espouse good service, but very few actually excel and deliver on the promise. However, one company is so good at ...