If data is the new currency that is driving the digital economy, then your digital identity is an asset that needs to be treated and protected like all other valuable assets.

In fact, it is such a valuable asset that the other day the Governor of California floated the idea of Data Dividends. He argued that companies should share in the wealth that is created from the user data because it has value and it belongs to the users.

A recent supply chain article dropped an alarming statistic. “A 2017 DHL survey notes that the talent shortage (with supply chain jobs outpacing supply by at least 6:1) is a result of changing skills requirements, an aging workforce, lack of talent development and a perception that supply chain jobs aren’t exciting.”