Dovetail Software Blogs

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 ...

Dovetail Software Blogs:  Simplified Business ''The thought of a simplified IT is a compelling idea. As we discussed yesterday, it helps to remember that business is often a very tangled and complicated thing, with a lot of legacy procedures that no one fully understands: things are done a certain way from a burden of history more than ...

In a technology world coming apart at the seams - that's a good thing by the way, and of course we mean decoupling in general - the question comes up, how big a culprit is IT itself in the complicated nature of enterprise evolution? Minimalist Andrew Clifford in his blog at ITtoolbox admits to multiple heresies, cheerfully, and can't help but ...

We’re always thinking about innovation here at Dovetail. This week we’ve been talking about innovation in relation to cost and investment. Editor Diann Daniel at CIO.com addressed this very issue in an interview with James P. Andrew of Boston Consulting Group, continuing her coverage of the 2007 BCG innovation survey. The survey queried ...

Dovetail Software Blogs: Business and IT Are Oceans Apart “But one of the barriers to this being instituted is IT simply doesn’t know enough about how the company makes money. Just as few people on the business side understand the intricacies and challenges their IT counterparts face. “So the ability to pursue ...

Yesterday we talked not only about what IT needs to do to stay relevant, but also about the ways it can really become an enterprise leader. Esther Schindler over at CIO.com talked today about ways IT can learn from marketing and begin transforming their image. From her article: “To many non-technical enterprise departments, ...