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

Article from New York Times, 27 February 2010, called " We Have Met the Enemy and He is Powerpoint" should be titled "We Nee...

This is not an endorsement of any vendor or product, but rather just sharing a great example of how robust visualization and enabling techno...

In life, no one has only peaks or valleys. Life is a continuous cycle, and we must traverse “The Wheel of Life” (an ancient belief of many ...

There is a great quote by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech he gave called “The Man in the Arena” (1910). The quote is about not being deterred...

If you’re using a book reader like the Kindle or iPad and are downloading books to read, they are just like real paper books, except that th...

They call it City 2.0—that is cities that are IT enabled with all sorts of sensors and smart technology. Cameras monitor traffic flow. Senso...

Improving organizational performance is often grounded in identifying bottlenecks (constraints) and fixing them , so that the firm runs bett...

New Article by Andy Blumenthal in Architecture and Governance Magazine (April 2010) http://tinyurl.com/y3xgrlb __________________________...

There are two common problems where immature or dysfunctional governance results in poor performance. When good governance is lacking, eith...

You’re on the Internet doing your business, but who is at the other end and how do you know that you can trust them? That is what so call...

Apple has an amazing self-sufficiency model, where they have only 6 desktop support analysts for 34,000 worldwide employees, 36 helpline ag...

Homeland Security Today Magazine (March 2010) has an interesting article called “Biometrics on the Battlefield" about how t he American...

What a crazy news story (reported through South Korean news media)—and true. This South Korean couple, addicted to a video game, ends up s...

There is a new vision for security technology that blends high-tech with behavioral psychology, so that we can seemingly read people’s minds...

Thinking “out of the box” is fundamental to free us from the prevailing status quo. Brainstorming can enable us to tackle problems creativel...

“Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort ...