The document discusses how digital technologies like mobile, IoT, and cloud/SaaS have fragmented IT and widened the gap between demands on IT and its delivery capacity. Current approaches to address this like overworking staff, outsourcing, or agile/DevOps methods are not sustainable or sufficient. APIs can help solve this problem by enabling the creation of application networks that emerge organically across teams. These application networks provide visibility, security, governance of APIs and allow organizations to flexibly compose and recompose applications. This new approach drives speed, agility and innovation as the network is built to thrive on change.