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ME PoV Issue 50

Resilience redefined

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In an era of accelerating technological disruption, economic uncertainty and shifting market dynamics, resilience has become a defining competitive advantage for businesses across the Middle East. It is no longer simply about navigating disruption, but about anticipating change, seizing opportunities and building the foundations for sustainable growth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing industries, investment decisions, and the way businesses operate. At the same time, economic changes are creating new opportunities for those willing to rethink how they create and protect value. Traditional approaches to risk, assurance and asset protection are also being challenged as technology and business needs evolve. Together, these changes are reshaping what resilience means.

For businesses, this means using AI to improve efficiency and decision-making, while ensuring asset insurance keeps pace with new technologies, infrastructure and risks. For investors, combining human judgment with AI can help identify opportunities and create value. Economic agility is just as important. Businesses that can adapt to changing conditions are better positioned to respond to change and prepare for future growth.

The Middle East's approach to AI is a clear example of this shift. With ambitious national strategies and significant investment, the region has an opportunity to move beyond adopting technologies developed elsewhere and to help shape its own AI future. As the Gulf moves from building AI infrastructure to putting it to wider economic use, the focus is on growing local demand and creating more value within the region.

But technology alone cannot build resilience; it also requires strong leadership, good governance, skilled people, and trust. Businesses must be willing to challenge established ways of working, embrace innovation while managing risk, and ensure that progress supports long-term growth.

In this issue, we explore what resilience means for businesses across the Gulf and the wider Middle East, and how they can prepare for what lies ahead. Because resilience is no longer just about dealing with change. It is about using change to build a stronger future.We hope you enjoy reading Issue 50 of the Middle East Point of View.

The ME PoV Editorial Team

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AI in auditing: Building organizational resilience and creating stakeholder value | Deloitte Middle East

AI is reshaping the future of audit and risk management. As organizations across the Middle East move from AI experimentation to enterprise-scale adoption, the priority is shifting from deploying AI to governing it—making trust, resilience, and intelligent oversight essential to better decision-making.

Rethinking asset insurance in the Gulf | Deloitte Middle East

 Rising construction, equipment, and supply chain costs are exposing Gulf businesses to a growing risk of underinsurance, making proactive reassessment of asset replacement values essential to preserving balance sheet resilience. 

The intelligence premium | Deloitte Middle East

As private equity across the GCC shifts from financial engineering to operational value creation, AI is emerging as a critical lever for driving revenue growth, margin expansion, smarter diligence, and higher exit valuations.

AI transformation and economic agility | Deloitte Middle East

As AI adoption scales across the Middle East, resilience is being redefined from recovery after disruption to anticipating change, adapting quickly, and turning data, technology, and workforce readiness into sustained competitive advantage.

Leapfrogging to the future: Securing an AI-native Middle East | Deloitte Middle East

 As the Middle East accelerates toward AI-native growth, organizations must treat cybersecurity as a strategic, resilience-by-design capability—embedding Zero Trust, governance, and AI-aware defenses into the core of operations to manage rising risks from Shadow AI, critical infrastructure exposure, and future quantum threats. 

From megawatts to margin: AI in the Gulf enters its second phase in 2027 | Deloitte Middle East

 As the Gulf scales its AI infrastructure ambitions, returns will depend less on capital deployment alone and more on how quickly announced capacity becomes live demand-serving assets, how effectively sovereign compute advantages are monetized, and how far the region moves up the value chain beyond being a compute landlord.