Dovetail Software Blogs: Enterprise Knowledge is Stuck in its Culture
“For
the enterprise to unlock the tacit knowledge of its workers, the
culture of possession that exists around knowledge must give way to a
new culture of information sharing. And even with the tools available
to begin building the infrastructure, the culture of needing a reason
to share information still stands in the way.”
Cisco CEO John Chambers proclaims the future is Web 2.0
“In
other words, collaboration, enabled by the networking software and
software that Cisco produces, will lead to an increase in productivity.
“He
defined the characteristics of collaboration as safe, open
architecture, simple, virtualized and converged. “We are moving our
company as fast as we can to collaboration and Web 2.0,” he said. “We
see the next wave of productivity re-accelerating around the world.”
Chambers views collaboration technology and other Web 2.0–related
innovations as increasing productivity from 1 to 2 percent to 3 to 5
percent through 2012, just as the first wave of the Internet did from
1997 through 2002.”
Companies open wallets for secure data
“Amplitude’s
annual survey of IT admins finds an increase in satisfaction with IT
spending and more companies taking steps to use secure technology and
practices “
Six Techniques Lie at the Heart of IT Agility
“Your
skill in using just six techniques in appropriate combinations to
address different situations is the measure of your IT agility [...]
The skill levels of project teams can be measured by their capabilities
in these techniques. By employing these techniques, a project team will
always be able to produce competent (and sometimes even brilliant)
results.”
The current status quo: ’service averse architectures’
“My
ebizQ colleague Elizabeth Book nailed it when she identified the
architecture we see evolving across many enterprises these days:
‘Service Averse Architectures.’
“The root of the problem for organizations stuck in this rut is that they treat SOA
on a project-by-project basis, rather than as an enterprise effort,
Anne said. ‘You can always supply service oriented architecture
concepts and principles in every single project that you do. The thing
is, if you’re only doing so on a project-by-project basis, then you’re
not going to get significant value out of it.’”
Making business apps more like video games
“Because
Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) give us a lot of interactivity and
the ability to create creative, almost cinematic experiences, we’ve got
a lot of potential to make the business applications we use more
game-like.”
the Uncanny Valley of user interface design
“So
I’d recommend that if you’re considering or actively building Ajax/RIA
applications, you should consider the Uncanny Valley of user interface
design and recognize that when you build a “’esktop in the web
browser’-style application, you’re violating users’ unwritten
expectations of how a web application should look and behave.”
