APIs & Why You Should Know What They Are

A couple of years ago, OPEN MINDS took a close look at the work of Dr. Jason Hwang, the coauthor of The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care, and the challenges of planning strategy in a time of industry disruption (see The Disruption Of Strategy and Implementing Strategy With Rapid Innovation In Mind). The lesson from that coverage? When new knowledge or new technologies decentralizes expertise or information, disruptive innovation occurs. We are seeing that next step in this disruptive innovation come to pass with application program interfaces (APIs).

If you don’t know what APIs are . . .