Enterprise Intelligence

Across the Middle East, everyone says they’ve “implemented EA.” → A national airline. → A major Gulf bank. → A digital authority in the region. → A global logistics player based in the UAE. → Even a ministry that awarded EA certifications. But when we looked under the hood? What we found wasn’t ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE.

The answer lies in a 3 part influence chain - an imposed belief system, consulting firms, and cetification bodies and ...internal IT leadership team

So the question becomes: Who rewrote the definition? And why did an entire region — full of ambition, strategy, and capital — fall for such a narrow version of what should be the enterprise’s central nervous system?

The Truth: EA-IT Has Run Its Course The kind of EA we’ve practiced for 20 years—EA-IT—is no longer enough. You know the signs: 20-slide frameworks that never impact revenue. Architecture reviews that never reach the CEO. Teams stuck reporting up to Infrastructure instead of Strategy. At ICMG, we’ve been blunt about this: If your EA can’t explain why execution is breaking across departments, you don’t have architecture. You have diagrams. Abu Dhabi is where we stop explainin

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