This document discusses APIs and their importance for digital transformation. It emphasizes that APIs are key to connecting the old and new, and that a new mindset is needed to embrace both the past and create a new future. It highlights the need for organizations to have a real API strategy and vision to guide their digital programs and integration efforts. The document promotes adopting an "API first" approach and seeing API product management as a new type of role that requires a hybrid technology-business perspective.

1. Sri Lanka
GOOD MORNING

2. WELCOME

3. Colombo

4. Birthday
Happy

6. API Asia

7. I’M A CATALYST

8. Kay Lummitsch
Kay Lummitsch |
The Digital Journeyman |
Trusted Advisor To High-Profile Digital Programs |
API-Program Expert |
Rainmaker |
Proud Member Of the Global Catalyst Team @

9. P
L
B MO E
R
T
H
E

10. You can’t kiss
an API!

11. Concept

12. Attitude

13. Life Style

14. Mindset

15. A way to
look at the world

16. APIs are #key to
Digital Transformation!

17. No APIs -
No Digital!

18. APIs
are
EVERYWHERE

19. APIs are bridges
between the #OLD
and the #NEW

20. 24
APIs build the
#Future by
embracing the
#Past

21. APIs are saving our
Businesses!

22. APIs let us stay
Relevant!

23. B
U
T
THE #OLD WILL
NEVER GET US
TO THE #NEW

24. L
E
T’
S
NOT JUST
CREATE
#PAST
A #NEW

25. The thinking that
created a problem will
never be able to solve it!
˜Albert Einstein

26. C
N
A EH G

27. THE FOUR
QUADRANTS
OF CHANGE
….

28. mindset
behaviour
&
communication
technology
&
structures
culture

29. mindset
behaviour
&
communication
technology
&
structures
culture
THE STATUS-QUO
- THE MESS WE ARE IN -

30. “Insanity is doing the
same thing over and
over again and expecting
different results.”
˜Albert Einstein

31. mindset
behaviour
&
communication
technology
&
structures
culture

32. LET’S TALK
APIs

33. There is SOAP in our
RESTroom!
˜Uli Hitzel

34. SOAPISM
VS.
RESTISM
A
PARADIGM
SHIFT!

35. A shift from
Inside-Out to
Outside-In!

36. From
Happy Architect
to
Happy Customer!

37. WHO IS FIRST?

38. API
FIRST?

39. API
FIRST?YES!

40. ANALYTICS
FIRST?

41. ANALYTICS
FIRST?YES!

42. DOCUMENTATION
FIRST?

43. DOCUMENTATION
FIRST?YES!

44. CUSTOMER
FIRST?

45. CUSTOMER
FIRST?YES!

46. ON INTEGRATION…

47. Leveraging
APIs is about
Integration.
Of course!

48. AND

49. Leveraging APIs
is #NOT about
Integration.
Of course not!

50. ON PROJECTS…

51. Leveraging APIs
is #NOT
yet another
Software Project.

52. From Project
To Program
To Self-Organized Teams
TO #SUCCESS!

53. CONSEQUENCE
LOGICAL
THE

54. API-PRODUCT
MANAGEMENT

55. API
By Example
Excellence

56. Do you know
what’s crazy
about cooking?

57. You receive your
customers
feedback
instantaneously !

58. “If our guest don’t
come downtown and
wait in line for our
dishes - then it’s not
what we’re after”

59. If this is a Chef’s Mindset
We should make it our Digital Mindset,
our API Mindset
and of course
our API Product Management Mindset
…and maybe our Mindset in general!

60. API-Product Managers
are a new breed of crazy
Technology-Business
Cowboys

61. RADICAL
OWNERSHIP

62. ˜Kay Lummitsch - The Digital Journeyman
“If every business is a digital
business - and - #AdaptOrDie was
never meant to be a joke - every
half-hearted or luke-warm approach
to adopt - will end in dying!”

63. ON STRATEGY…

64. Almost no organization
has a real API-Strategy!

65. Almost no organization
has a real API-Vision!

66. TAXI

67. NO VISION
NO STRATEGY
NO NOTHING

68. WHAT I WISHED WHEN
I LED THE SWISSCOM
API-PROGRAM…

69. “At various moments on the journey
I was feeling totally distressed! Why
didn’t some kind of superhero come
from Mars to help us, telling us the
brutal truth about what works and
what doesn’t ?”

70. You need
somebody who
has been there!

71. We have been
there!

72. You better meet a
Catalyst!

73. Let’s talk…

74. A Hardcore Guide to API-Strategy

75. Thank you
Kay Lummitsch |
The Digital Journeyman |
Trusted Advisor To High-Profile Digital Programs |
API-Program Expert |
Rainmaker |
Proud Member Of the Global Catalyst Team @

76. Change is the new normal

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