APIs as an automatic innovation ecosystem

“Unbundling the Enterprise: APIs, Optionality, and the Science of Happy Accidents” reminds me of “The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win”. Both books I have a hard time understanding. But I get the principles of happy accidents, managing uncertainty and innovation.

The headline

Once you acknowledge that a specific future can’t be predicted, the basic premise of being flexible (i.e., having low-cost options) in the face of generic future changes is the common-sense choice to at least hedge your uncertainty.

Flexible treasure hunting

A book about IT and how APIs give you direct access to experimentation, serendipity, randomness, open innovation, flexibility, adaptability, options, scaling, and unlock (hidden) value. Funding the treasures in the digital seas. Using data as the raw material for creating digital products, high-speed, low-cost communication, and mass observability. Unbundling business capabilities into API-enabled digital building blocks establishes the foundation for the tools that everyone can use to drive innovation.

An API ecosystem