Dovetail Software Blogs

Yesterday we mentioned an Information Week article that surveyed adoptions, attitudes, and possibilities around Enterprise 2.0 tools and deployments throughout the enterprise environment. The article disturbed Andrew McAfee, evangelist for the 2.0 concept, who found embedded in the writing a belief-bias that organizations will evaluate the ...

Yesterday we took up a concept introduced by CIO magazine executive editor Elana Varon, the idea that every organization has its “meta-story” that describes its purpose to all its people, and that saturates its culture. As Varon describes it in her story about Wal-Mart, even though analysts are focusing on the IT choices made by the ...

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 a clear view of efficiency.This reinforces the view ...

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 ...

The issue of IT alignment is commonly heard nowadays, as part of the plea of the business side of the enterprise to get better response from IT. Some say that such alignment comes at the expense of technical proficiency, but we disagree. We’re tempted to say that alignment is just another word for results. As Dovetail Software says ...

Communication is the common medium through which all collaboration moves. We think we know how to communicate, but maybe we don’t, and maybe thinking we do is our greatest hindrance to success. Anthony Cimino posted a brilliant observation recently at CIO.com, showing how we can learn to communicate by looking inside any busy ...