Interesting. It seems like there's some good discussion over the past few days on hunting ground for good ideas. Everything is rightly disclaimed with a "not guaranteed to produce a good idea."

Moving people from general tools to more specific ones is tricky. Most of the things people use spreadsheets or email for could be done with more specific tools, possibly better. Time tracking, data storage, project management, scheduling. General tools that you are already using have a lower overhead.

I can guess at 2 big gotchas. (1) To move people to narrower tools you need a very big improvement. Slightly better isn't enough. For a lot of things there just isn't that much room for improvement. (2) When you move from general to specific tools the software dictates how the user does stuff more. This leaves room to get it wrong.