# The Desired State of Enterprise API People

**Canonical:** https://apievangelist.com/2025/01/10/the-desired-state-of-enterprise-api-people/

People are the most costly, messy, and valuable asset an enterprise possesses, and enterprise leadership is extremely focused on keeping the talent they have and empowering them to do more work over time with API integrations and automation—raising the stakes for getting all the API people moving in the same direction.

  - Embrace Federated Teams
  - Support With Centralized Teams
  - Active Embedded Champions
  - Clear API Product Ownership
  - Everyone Possesses API Skills
  - API Value Actively is Evangelized

80% of the work with APIs is people work, and successful API operations provide teams with the agency and autonomy they need to be successful, while investing in their skills and training, and creating a space where team’s work is evangelized and celebrated by default to keep the humans working together.

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This is part of ongoing series to aggregate all of the conversations we've had with enterprises about their APIs over the last five years into a single outline. If you have questions or would like to contribute to the downloadable API governance products we are developing, please <a href="https://apievangelist.com/contact">reach out</a>, and you can read the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/who-api-evangelist-speaks-being-change-agent-within-enterprise-lane-lmuse">full post on LinkedIn</a>.
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