What Effective Innovative Businesses Do Differently
summary
Argues that consistent API design and governance prevent costly friction and data breaches (cites David McCandless’s 30,000+ breaches visualization), shows real outcomes: saved costs in North America and opened markets in Tokyo and South Korea, compares platform tactics used by ClassPass, MindBody, Peloton and Orangetheory to lock or share data, highlights mature platform examples like WeWork and National Instruments, recommends asyncAPI and event‑driven/messaging protocols beyond HTTP, and urges contributing to open source tooling to make ecosystems viable.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 5:16What incentives keep platform members engaged in the ecosystem?
- 9:26Digital processes and touch points are reflections of the relationship
- 11:02How "Think Global, Act Local" typifies the challenge of doing business across the diversity of Asia
- 13:04Diverse API and microservices matched with business capability and hybrid enterprise architectures
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