The process of breaking apart the components and capabilities of a product, service or business to enable more flexibility and optionality in how they are recombined and leveraged.
Unbundling
2 of our books define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
you can consider “unbundling” to be an umbrella term that refers to architecting your organization’s capabilities into discrete packaged units of functionality that are referred to as APIs.
— Unbundling and the Public Sector, in the text
See also Capability Capitalization · Digital Natives/Pirates · Distributed Innovation · Exchange Optimization · Non-Rivalry · Optionality
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