Mohamed (T.) Farrag - VP Business and Enterprise Architecture

• Led the establishment of the Digital Transformation Enablement function as a strategic pillar for enterprise-wide digital initiatives.
• Served as member of Yara Digital Board, advising on digital strategies and ensuring compliance with digital policy and standards.
• Refined the Enterprise Architecture function to support digital transformation, embedding frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, BIZBOK, and BABOK.
• Developed EA principles, policies, and governance frameworks to strengthen architecture governance.
• Co-created data strategy, operating model, and governance for data democratization and AI use case development.
• Contributed to establishing Yara AI Governance to comply with the EU AI Act and served on the Yara Data Governance board to establish enterprise data architecture.
• Acted as change management ambassador, supporting operating model redesign and capability building.
• Led implementation and adoption of EA tools (LeanIX, Bizzdesign, Ardoq) for portfolio assessments and digital maturity analysis.
• Chaired the Program Design Authority Board and led architecture transformation in Yara’s $400M+ global ERP transformation program.
• Spearheaded transition from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA, defining ERP target architecture and global ERP template.
• Directed blueprint design for core business processes: Order to Cash, Plan to Produce, Source to Pay, Record to Report, Integrate to Plan, HESQ.
• Led business analysis activities under Business Architecture following the BABOK framework.
• Defined ERP migration strategy, process simplification and harmonization, and built the ERP architecture repository using LeanIX.
• Managed a team of SAP architects; oversaw onboarding/offboarding of consultants and set principles for custom code and extensions.
• Applied application portfolio management techniques including value based management, total cost of ownership, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Participated in process classification framework setup and development.
• Contributed to delivery methodology setup using SAFe and tools like Azure DevOps, Jira, and Confluence.

In my role as the Chief Business Architect within the Telenor Group, operating across Scandinavian, European and Asia regions, I identified technology-enabled business opportunities inspired by strategic objectives and translated them into actionable plans through technology strategy. I focused on elevating organizational maturity in business architecting practices to facilitate transformation journeys by enhancing operational capabilities to become more agile, adaptive, and responsive to change, leveraging techniques such as Composable Business Architecture, business unbundling, and architecture decoupling.

• Spearheaded development of innovative telecom and digital product portfolios as CTO of a telecom and digital conglomerate.
• Managed the technology portfolio and enhanced technological capabilities.
• Established and led the technology team to develop and operate telecom and digital products.
• Continued company startup activities to ensure smooth operations and growth.
• Formulated high-level business and technology strategies to guide company direction.
• Supported sales and account management efforts, achieving €5M in sales within the first year.
• Built operational capabilities to compete against Chinese telecom vendors.
• Drove business development initiatives in North Africa and Africa.
• Managed project delivery and executed proof-of-concept projects to validate innovative ideas.