Essential components of an API program (Part 1 of the enterprise API program guide)
Understanding key challenges and drivers of an API program, essential components needed to build it, and what it takes to go from a vision to a thriving API program.
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Struggling to foster strategic alignment within your API program? This guide will help you strike the right balance.
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Take me thereThere are four essential components of an API program. Read part 1 of the enterprise API program guide to learn about strategic alignment, organizational governance, digital product delivery, and platform enablement.
Strategic alignment
- Anticipate, understand, and satisfy stakeholder needs
- Map key decision-makers and their interrelationships to business drivers and vision
- Balance strategic concerns with a business-led, not a tech-led approach
Organizational governance
- Ensure executional alignment with an API product roadmap
- Prioritize effectively with delivery team independence
- Prioritize product delivery
- Drive reuse of platform components and self-service
Digital product delivery
- Reimagine the business as sets of APIs delivering digital capabilities across the whole ecosystem
- Converge on a common definition of value for digital products
- Put consumer value propositions first
- Manage the full API lifecycle with emphasis on Design-first
Platform enablement
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Bring business models and technology models together in a single API platform to enable collaboration
- Build a technology ecosystem for value exchange using APIs to link architecture patterns.
- Enable greater self-sufficiency and collaboration without sacrificing great experiences, speed, and security through automation
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