Matt McLarty and Stephen Fishman of Boomi on Unbundling the Enterprise

Listen as we speak with our latest guests, Matt McLarty and Stephen Fishman, authors of the book “Unbundling the Enterprise – APIs, Optionality, and the Science of Happy Accidents.” Matt is Boomi's CTO, and Stephen is the Field CTO at Boomi and a Strategic Advisor at Revenium. The book has a lot about APIs, what they can power, and how they can be leveraged to create the experiences we’ll be experiencing ahead.

Topics covered include:

• • What finance businesses should know about what APIs can do that tech experts already know?
  • Why companies who leveraged APIs early rapidly became some of the biggest in the world.
  • Did you know Google Maps never intended to make their API available to third-party developers? Hear why they did.
  • Who are the financial businesses that gave themselves an advantage years ago?
  • What does it mean to “unbundle the enterprise?"
  • How are financial institutions doing in terms of awareness and adoption of API opportunities?
  • What is capability capitalization?
  • Why it’s better for finserv companies to go on offense with optionality than to engage in “reluctant compliance” with regulations.
  • The three methodologies financial businesses need for an effective API strategy.
  • The value in data being non-fungible, non-rivalrous, and experience-dependent. What are the risks of this kind of API-driven digital transformation?