[Sigia-l] IAs vs BAs

[Christopher Fahey]

> Information Architects vs Business Analysts

How about Business Analysts *analyze* and Information Architects
*architect*? Seems pretty simple.

I know the line is blurry in many organizations, but there's something
very design-centric and structurally-oriented about the "architecting"
part of the IA title, while the BA title implies a great deal of work to
understand a system and communicate that system to peers. It's like a
surveyor versus an engineer.

I know it's all semantics, but semantics set the tone for the actions
you take and the expectations others have of you. If a BA finds
themselves needing to invent new stuff more than they need to document
existing stuff, then perhaps they are, in fact, information
architecting. 

Cheers,
-Cf

Christopher Fahey
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