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APIs & the three pillars of digital transformation
Alianna Inzana, Senior Director, Product Management at SmartBear
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Digital Transformation from the Inside Out
Alianna Inzana
API Testing & Virtualization
| Different in a Digital Business
| 3 Pillars of Digital Transformation: 2014 vs 2020
| Digital Transformation: COVID
| Operations
| Employee Experience is Really DX: Fight Me
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90% of CEOs believe the digital economy will
impact their industry, but less than
15% are executing on a digital strategy
ââMIT Sloan & CapGemini
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Digital Transformation (DG) thru Projects Great & Small
Rapid-Cycle Innovation Projects
⢠Giant, transformational
projects â impacting all or
most of an enterprise
⢠Focus on fundamental
changes: technology, culture,
policy
Marquee DG Projects
⢠Business-led modernization
of workflows â within or
across depts or workgroups
⢠Focus on business agility:
quick wins and iteration
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Genesis: Three Pillars of Digital Transformation - 2014
Customer Experience Operations Business Models
⢠Transforming how
organizations
understand their
consumer
⢠Expanding consumer
touchpoints
⢠Automating processes
which were previously
manual and labour-
intensive
⢠Enabling collaboration
across teams and
legacy silos to deliver
value
⢠Adding digital layer to
existing business
⢠Creating new digital
business â to
complement
traditional go-to-
market channels
G. Westerman, D. Bonnet, âThe New Elements of Digital Transformationâ, MIT Sloan Mgmnt Review, Nov 2020. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-new-elements-of-digital-transformation
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New & Improved: 3 Pillar Sandwich of Digital Capability - 2020
Customer Experience Operations Employee Experience
⢠Experience Design
⢠Customer Intelligence
⢠Emotional Engagement
⢠Core Process
Automation
⢠Connected & Dynamic
Operations
⢠Data-Driven Decision
Making
⢠Augmentation
⢠Preparing for the
Future
⢠Flexible Workforce
Business Model
Digital Platform
G. Westerman, D. Bonnet, âThe New Elements of Digital Transformationâ, MIT Sloan Mgmnt Review, Nov 2020. https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-new-elements-of-digital-transformation
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Delivering Exceptional Customer Experience is API-Driven
Amazon, 1995 Amazon, 2020
⢠Experience Design is no
longer entirely UI-centric:
⢠Use of Voice Assistants for
shopping â underpinning
that experience are AI/NL
APIs that interpret users
requests and respond to
them.
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Build Loyalty Through Customer Intelligence
Sephora Virtual Artist App
⢠Customer Intelligence â connecting
customer data across multiple platforms
and experiences and using that data to
augment or replace physical experiences
⢠Emotional Engagement â an emotionally
engaged customer is 52% more valuable
than a highly satisfied customer
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A company can seize extraordinary
opportunities only if it is very good at
the ordinary operations
- Marcel Tellus
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Operational Transformation Requires Integration
| Core Process Automation: manufacturing execution,
autonomous warehousing, automation basics
| Connected & Dynamic Operations: optimizing
hardware, models, and process via the âDigital Twinâ
is possible through API virtualization
| Data-driven Decision Making: integrating data from
across the company in real-time
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Contract-driven TestingâŚnow with Drones ď
Construction Monitoring and Reporting using Drones and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Cost Savings
Schedule Compression
High Quality
Design & Construction
Completed Project much more
closely aligned w/ Design Intent
Eliminated need for
As-Built Drawings
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| Augmentation: enhancing employee
productivity or safety through
technology
| Future-readying: democratizing access
to training, mentorship, learning new
skills â and creating new digital
opportunities for learning
Employee Experience is Developer Experience (DX)
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API Governance Improves Operational Time-to-Value
⢠API standardization is the act of designing
consistent methods across all APIs, particularly
if they belong to the same entity.
⢠API standardization is key to creating efficiency
and interoperability.
⢠Standardization enables organizations to create
digital platforms for standardized API product
discovery, application testing, and developer
collaboration
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| Flexforcing: Organizations engage
with workers in the gig economy
(up to 43% of the US workforce,
Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS
projections) where APIs mediate
those marketplaces, and
contribute to resilience in staffing
APIs Power the Gig Economy
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âIn programming, the hard part isnât solving
problems, but deciding what problems to solve.â
- Paul Graham
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Digital Transformation from the Inside Out
⢠Digital Enhancements: still can be additive to more
traditional business models
⢠Information-based Service Extension: combining
product (traditional business model) and
services/data, both for customer satisfaction and
profit
⢠Digital Platforms: Core, external, and data platforms
provide both the infrastructure and analytics that
drive todayâs business.