When CEOs frame such incidents as IT failures, they prescribe more thermometers. When they reframe them as anatomy failures, they start rebuilding organs.

But recognizing these patterns isn’t the finish line—it’s the doorway to understanding how all organs share one structural code. Once you look across many organizations in the same sector, patterns begin to appear. That’s the second evolution — Industry-Specific EA. Every industry has a distinct structural DNA — a recurring set of departments, logic rules, and timing dependencies that define how it works.

From New York to Singapore, from Frankfurt to Bengaluru, 99% of the voices shaping “Enterprise Architecture” came from the IT side. BPM consultants occasionally sold “business process improvement,” but almost always to IT departments, not to CEOs or business units.