DIGITAL LEADERSHIP
not be driven by the need or desire for technology itself ,” says Schuerman .
Getting the right platform architecture necessary for flexibility Sandro Petterle is Chief Technology Officer at Rufus Leonard , the London-based design and technology business management consultancy , for over 30 years .
“ In a world of accelerating disruption , organisations are looking for ways to rapidly create sustainable competitive advantage . With technology enabling the efficient creation of value to customers , having the right platform architecture in place is business critical . It is the platform that facilitates growth and efficiency , allowing you to more easily create new highly personalised services and expand with new partners or new channels .
“ A headless , API-first , composable architecture is one way to facilitate this flexibility .
As the name suggests , a headless architecture allows you to separate the head / front-end from the body / back-end . The benefits are well documented : it ’ s decoupled , composable , fast , flexible , and efficient . API-first means that your content is powered by an API , but to extend the benefit further you should split up , or compose , your functionality into separate APIs so that
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SAMEER VARTAK CTO , LILLI
50 May 2022