Author: Lou Powell

Innovate fast without sacrificing security

In the era of accelerating change, time is always of the essence. In this environment, it’s not enough to innovate. To win, you must innovate fast, and get your... Read more

How to operationalize innovation

You may think that digital transformation is driven by technology, but it’s actually all about people. Innovation is only valuable if it can be operationalized and made core to... Read more

Why your enterprise keeps failing at digital transformation

Digital transformation has been pivotal to General Electric’s (GE) corporate strategy for years. The company first announced its Predix industrial software platform in 2013 and has since positioned itself as a... Read more

APIs built for consumers, not systems

Many of the companies that we have worked with over the years have created SOAP-based services (SOA) in order to serve distributed computing demand. However, they have struggled to... Read more

Breaking down the monolith

Typically when we think about microservices we think about breaking down the monolith. Deconstructing the large custom system into small, autonomous functionally aligned systems. But microservices can also be... Read more

10 questions for great API design

1) Who is the consuming audience? Is it internal? Customers? Partners? Vendors? Determining audience will drive new questions. What is their level of understanding of the business process driven... Read more