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APIs Simplified.

Decoupling and the Contract

Contract?

Contract? Not so decoupled.

Reusability

Substitution

Agility

This. Or this.

APIs=Networkable Service Orientation

Scalable

Bimodal Development

MODE 2MODE 1:Predictable, improving, and

renovating systems of record

Exploratory, experimenting

to solve new problems.

Balls of Mud

Digital Transformation

MODE 1 MODE 2

From this. To this.

MODE 1:Predictable, improving, and

renovating in well-understood areas

Objective• Re-Use• Decoupling• Substitution• Scale

Results• Agility• Efficiency• Cost Control• Foundation for Mode 2

Digital transformation process: Start with a ball of mud

Identify existing services and spot the seams of what is left

Identify new service candidates

Deduplicate

Outsource

Expose selected services externally (join the API economy)

Mode 2

Results• Enable New Digital Products and customer outcomes• Enable New Business Models• Create New Business Channels (aka New Sources of

Revenue

MODE 2