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Byline: Tracey Caldwell
Doing the business
Information is ever more critical to the success of organisations and information professionals should be hot prope rty. But as information discovery begins to be perceived as automated, the power base is shifting to those who can analyse increasingly less structured information.
The business analyst, once an IT/business hybrid role, is evolving to fill this gap and this role looks set to overlap and even overtake the traditional Information professional role.
Richard Beveridge, director of library services at Tribal Group, says, "In my opinion a business analyst is not a seeker and ...