Chet Kapoor's opening keynote address at I Love APIs London 2016. Like the three industrial revolutions before it, the fourth brings technology advances and culture change as people adapt to live and work in new ways. The promise is huge and the need to move fast and adapt quickly to change is paramount.
21. FY15 NET PROFITS UP 39%
compared to 22% in FY14
Building an open
bank platform
Launched Fitness
Account for Apple
Watch
22. Helping farmers feed
the world through APIs
FEED 2.4 BILLION MORE PEOPLE BY 2050
23. Developed
app for Xbox
RECORD SALES ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY
$12 MILLION OVERALL DIGITAL SALES
MOBILE APP SURPASSED DESKTOP SALES
24. CONVENTIONAL LAMP SALES DECREASED BY 16% IN 2015
PHILIPS HUE AND LED SALES GREW 26%
Developed wireless
adaptive lighting system
25. “Burberry digital investment
pays off in double-digit
sales growth.”
– Internet Retailing
May 2015
MOBILE COMMERCE DOUBLED ITS
SHARE OF SALES DURING THE YEAR
26. APIs Underpin a Digital
Business Platform
Prepare For Digital Transformation's
Constant, Unpredictable Change
APIs Underpin A Digital Business Platform
Prepare For Digital Transformation’s Constant, Unpredictable Change
by Randy Heffner
January 28, 2016
FOR APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY PROFESSIONALS
FORRESTER.COM
Key Takeaways
The Big Mistake: Framing Transformation
Around Specific Digital Initiatives
Organizations that frame a digital transformation
around a list of specific digital initiatives (e.g.,
mobile, analytics, etc.) make the mistake of
assuming that today’s technology hot buttons are
the destination, rather than the start of a journey.
This results in haphazard architecture framed
around each separate project.
The Better Assumption: Digital Transformation
Is About Preparing For Continuous Change
Once today’s list of specific digital initiatives
is done, business and technology innovations
will be demanding more change. So, digital is
really about getting today’s list done while also
preparing for an unknown future of continuous,
rapid change.
The Real Need: A Digital Business Platform
In addition to the right organizational culture and
structures, being prepared for continuous, rapid
change demands that one’s technology base
supports a wide and rapidly evolving variety of
business models, processes, and ecosystems.
Crafting a digital business platform requires
ecosystem thinking; a focus on capabilities,
processes, and adjacencies; strong portfolio
management of business APIs; and a plan for
evolving the platform over time.
Why Read This Report
While it’s true that transforming to realize the
benefits of digital business requires specific
initiatives such as mobile apps, the Internet of
Things, and predictive analytics, it’s a mistake
to frame one’s transformation around such
initiatives. Instead, focus on a more critical and
fundamental reality that runs underneath all of
them: the need to prepare for an unknown future
of continuous business and technology change.
This report describes how AD&D pros should
prepare for continuous change and evolution
using Forrester’s vision for an API-centric digital
business platform.
Forrester Research
(January 2016)
41. Communication
User App Developer API API Team Backend
“Organizations that design systems… are constrained
to produce designs that are copies of the communication
structures of those organizations.”
–Melvin Conway 1968
48. From an army of workers to a
network of makers
• customers activated
• users as product managers
CUSTOMERS
• ecosystem innovation
• extend and complement
PARTNERS
• on boarding & analytics
• x-company innovation
INTERNAL DEVELOPERS
• enterprise data at core
• unlock core value
SYSTEM OF RECORD
49. Innovation for Technology & People
Technology
Scale, Availability
Developer Centricity
Microservices
Hybrid Cloud
Adaptive Learning
People
Communication
Agile Lifecycle
New Investment Models
Community