Who Convinced the Middle East that EA = IT?

Session Overview:

Enterprise Architecture was meant to be the nervous system of the organization—linking vision to execution, strategy to process, and decisions to operations.

Instead, it has been reduced to a technical artifact—a department under IT, a tool with diagrams, a folder no one updates.

In this Think Tank session, we unpack:

• How this misdefinition spread so rapidly across Gulf nations and sectors

• Why global consulting firms, vendors, and internal teams all contributed