ABSTRACT
When looking at the overlapping evolution of technology and business models, developing a realistic technology roadmap and combining it with fundamental business analysis is a necessary first step towards developing practical organizational strategies. However, we know (from experience and numerous case studies), that it is difficult to predict the future landscape from such a roadmap alone: vision is a necessity if we are to develop ideas as to who the future players in the identity and identity management landscape might be and how their businesses might work. Such is the case in the world of digital identity: the link, as we shall see, between the real and virtual identity domains. As Phil Becker has accurately noted on more than one occasion (for example, Becker 2004), we are in the middle of a genuine paradigm1 shiĞ in this world.
