Our whole company is transforming to become a digital platform business.

Some business units are building digital business models.

We are not digitally transforming the business.

Our digital initiatives focus on modernizing IT while business proceeds as usual.

We use APIs for open innovation and to expose assets to partners.

We manage APIs as strategic assets for creating business value.

We use APIs to build digital experiences and products.

We think of APIs as a way to do systems integration.

Our business and IT are converged into teams that work together to make products and services.

We build experiences based on the services that IT tells us are already available.

We relentlessly use data to improve our products and customer experiences.

Our business teams just define the experience; IT designs and builds products and APIs that deliver it.

We are actively developing our capabilities to build ecosystems for strategic business advantage.

We want to augment existing partnerships with a few new digital capabilities.

We are investing in new partnerships and want to extend into adjacent markets.

We are not actively expanding our ecosystem beyond existing technologies and integrations.

We have champions and some IT teams have formally committed to API-first.

We have a few API evangelists with some following, but no explicit executive support.

Many business leaders are driving their products and services with an API-first approach.

Our CIO/CTO has mandated an API-first digital transformation.

We have to convince individual projects to use APIs in order to get something built.

We have a funded, company-wide initiative to build the API platform.

We have funding mechanisms to build APIs within individual projects.

We have no funding for production API projects.

We use metrics focused on consumption of APIs, such as number of developers and number of apps.

We do not measure the impact of APIs.

We use traditional IT-centric numbers, such as APIs produced or cost of producing them.

We measure the impact that our APIs have on the business in terms of revenue, NPS, and speed to market.

More than half, but not all, of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

We don’t follow modern API best practices.

All of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

Less than half of our software development teams follow modern best practices.

Our teams do not design and deliver APIs.

More than half our software teams design and deliver APIs.

All of our software teams design and deliver APIs.

Fewer than half our teams design and deliver APIs, typically for special projects.

We have a basic online self-service process, and a few of our APIs are ready to use within a day.

Our self-service processes are manual, with access provided in a week or more.

App developers can get to “Time to First Hello World“ with many of our APIs in less than five minutes.

We have no self-service.