Dovetail Software Blogs

Yesterday we quoted Laurie Orlov’s thoughts about how stuck in our ways we can become, especially if we’re institutional and hierarchy-based (or if our name is IT). Meanwhile Jon Husband has been reading Gary Hamel on the future of management, and comes away impressed, offering some summary conclusions that may tie in with that sense of ...

As the talk in last week’s videocast interview between Robert Scoble and Jackie Bassett progressed, it turned inevitably to the subject of blogging, social media, Web 2.0 – as all enterprise technology discussions must turn nowadays. Jackie said that at her latest CEO conference in October, out of all the subjects under discussion, 56 CEOs ...

Robert Scoble’s interview with Jackie Bassett last week zeroed in on the subject of CIOs and their disconnect from CEO thinking. Bassett offered her blueprint for how the CIO can take a true seat at the leadership table (with appropriate bonus packages). The 45-minute videocast deserves a transcription, and as promised yesterday we offer some ...

Most CIOs leave their companies after 18 months on the job, and more often than not they don’t jump, they’re pushed. On the other hand, there are twenty CIOs in this entire world who are so valuable to their companies that they make over $5 million per year. How do the other CIOs get to this exalted place at the corporate table? Jackie ...

Innovation Is Tough ''For the enterprise, innovation will involve collaboration, one way or another, either in the execution or in the planning. And what about the brainstorming in the first place? The new trend is to call the customers in to help with the thinking – not just soliciting feedback in surveys, but allowing the end users to merge ...

The tension that exists between Finance and IT within the organization is notorious. Both departments speak very specialized languages, and both are major strategists for the enterprise. Where is there any common language between the two camps? The answer may lie in the simple daily affairs of the business. Just as IT is encouraged to craft ...

Not so Fast with That 2.0 ''Behind it all, even before we used the term Enterprise 2.0, we were quietly suggesting that the enormous network benefits from the proving ground of the Web could replicate themselves on the corporate intranet. Today, the almost seamless fusion of the Web into the daily work of business and development routine ...

It shouldn’t be surprising that a magazine devoted to the CIO point of view runs so many stories about the increasing educational requirements of IT leaders, but what may surprise some (not us) is the number of articles about the need for marketing skills that appear in CIO.com. Ex-Forrester research director and now CIO magazine editor ...

Inching Towards Enterprise 2.0 ''The article is almost priceless for its reminders – largely addressed to the C-level executive suite it must be admitted – that we really should know all these things by now, because management theory has been under challenge by better ways to do things since the nineteen-eighties. But Olivier sees people ...

To keep in the spirit of Halloween we’re going to talk about something that will spook any company’s CIO: losing staff. According to Laurie M. Orlov, writing at CIO magazine, IT’s big concern right now is the future of IT staff. “CIOs are nervous. Despite the fact that a low percentage of staff are departing, it looks like next ...