IA Trends Survey Results and Analysis
Lou Rosenfeld — “Swimming in the wake of disaster is a Good Thing: The surprising steadiness in the number of in-house IAs during the dark days of 2001-2002 makes more sense when placed in the broader context of IT budgeting. Organizations couldn’t continue wasting large sums replacing one failed enterprise application with another that seemed more promising. It slowly became obvious to managers that CMS, portal, and search engine performance could be improved through the efforts of information architects and other humans who were actually far less expensive than purchasing a new silver bullet.”