Episode 173 - GluuFederation/identerati-office-hours GitHub Wiki
Title: From CIDO to IPO: Applying Product Ownership to Identity
- Host: Mike Schwartz, Founder/CEO Gluu
- Guest: Eve Maler, President, Founder Venn Factory
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Description
Most organizations “back into” identity as they grow, and as regulations come into the picture. Identity needs do many jobs, but it’s most often seen through an exclusive lens: say, protection or compliance. Cultural and technical baggage leads to not only messy architecture, but also disempowered identity leadership. The Chief Identity Officer conversation was stunted from the start because it hasn’t forced sufficient clarity about all of identity’s “jobs to be done.” Based on her forthcoming book, Mastering Digital Identity: From Risk to Revenue, Eve proposes a new frame for strategic identity leadership borrowed from product management and Agile practice: the Identity Product Owner.
Homework
- Identity at the Center Podcast The Strategic Importance of Identity Security in Enterprises with Eve Maler
- Venn Factory Substack Article: Identity as Floor Wax and Dessert Topping
- Identity Management Institute IAM Career Guide
Takeaways
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⚡ Excellence at digital identity is a key activity for enterprises--it's now a part of the business model that CEOs can't afford to ignore.
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⚡ While risk management is probably enough of a reason for CEOs to start thinking more about digital identity, harnessing the promise of AI might be more pressing in the current moment. Without excellence in digital identity, it's hard to see how enterprises will be able to launch the advanced services they need to compete.
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⚡ A product management approach to identity pattern matches with the challenge, and is the direction many of the best run enterprises are already heading. So our industry might see more people with the "Identity Product Owner" or "IPO" title. Or what about a CIPO -- "Chief Identity Product Owner"?
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⚡ Even if you're not a CEO, thinking about identity from the CEO perspective can help you war game out the business rationale for investing in digital identity technology.