Henrik Arndt — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:52:16 GMT

James Kalbach has probably not noticed or otherwise acknowledged the German Internet and IT industries that are engaged in IA.
Every foremost internet agency in Germany has a highly productive information architecture department. For five years I am working in several of these agencies with the title “Information Architect” on my business card, before that I was doing pretty much the same work, just calling it something else. Starting with the help of Rosenfeld’s and Morville’s great book we meanwhile have enhanced their methods and techniques to meet today’s requirements of large website projects.
Most client-side Internet Managers in the automotive, medical or fashion industries can explain the business advantages of information architecture better than almost any Information Architect.
The biggest issue I can see is the gap between the quality of current university education and the skills that are needed to fulfil the role required of an Information Architect in today’s and future internet and IT projects. In Germany there is a demand for excellent Information Architects but they are as yet hard to find.

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