Wider Team

The Wider Team helps our clients confront seven IoT grand challenges (our view based on field work) with four practices. Self knowledge and awareness. Your fleet is growing faster than you can know all the parties that make it work, touch your data, or threaten its integrity. External intelligence. Technology and industry teams you don't influence are defining and building solutions without your input, without understanding your context, trade-offs, and concerns. Multidimensionality. These are not just technical or engineering problems. You risk failure if you don't embrace the legal, business, regulatory, competitive, political, economic forces shaping your problems and the solution spaces. Organizational Interdependence. No IoT identity system operates in isolation. So you are suffering from negative externalities (like contractual leaks, regulatory violation, insecure nodes, untrustworthy data). You don't want to be on the outside of keiretsu that recognize and allocate their risks and costs to you. Pervasive. Digital identity underpins every system you have now and every system you and your people will ever touch. Every new technology, every innovation relies on it. The identity stakes grow faster than the rest of your technical debt. Tempo. Identity of Things is changing faster than your internal tempo. You lag outside events, following where strangers lead, letting others pull focus away from your opportunities. House of Cards. Identity is a relatively low layer in your technology stack. It is a complex, fragile, and crumbling foundation on which the rest of what you do relies. Our four practices (Investigation, Science, Synthesis, Diffusion) add control, limit risk, and create transformational opportunity from the Identity Layer.