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The top 5 challenges to a successful IAM program
Sudeep Banerjee
Jim McDonald
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Introductions
Jim McDonald
Practice Director
Identropy
jim@identropy.com
@jimmymacIAM
Sudeep Banerjee
Program Manager
Identity and Access Services
Association of American Medical Colleges
sbanerjee@aamc.org
@hisudeep
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Overview
• Organizational overview
• Identropy
• AAMC
• IAM at AAMC
• Top 5 challenges to a successful IAM Program
• Interaction
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Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
(AAMC) is a not-for-profit association representing all 141 accredited U.S. and 17
accredited Canadian medical schools; nearly 400 major teaching hospitals and
health systems, including 51 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and
90 academic and scientific societies.
Through these institutions and organizations, the AAMC represents 148,000
faculty members, 83,000 medical students, and 115,000 resident physicians.
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Identity and Access at AAMC
Complex User
Experience
Too many
integration
patterns
Unclear roles
and
responsibilities
The complexity and variation of identity and access processes
across the AAMC’s web properties leads to inaccurate identity
data
AAMC’s approach to IAM has resulted in a multiple
generations of systems that serve the same or very similar
purposes
Decentralized decision making and budgeting for IAM resulted in
parochial decisions that slowed enterprise strategic aims
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Centralized
• Governance
• Strategic planning
• Communications
• Program Delivery
Standardized
• Processes
• Data practices
• Monitoring
• Operations
Optimized
• Strategy
• Architecture
• Roadmap
Where do we want to be ?
Identity and Access at AAMC
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Challenge 1- Funding your vision
• Paint a picture of your vision
• Show alignment to strategic initiatives
• Map benefits to business outcomes (revenue, cost, risk)
• Aim for enterprise level funding and not business level
• Get buy in for the long-term investment roadmap
“…a bitter pill to swallow”
9. Challenge 2: Choosing the right technology
• Understand your use cases
• Build for the future
• Build upon your strengths
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“…just what the doctor ordered”
10. Challenge 3: Working in partnership with
users
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“…an ounce of prevention”
• Fight for the user (experience)
• Don’t assume what users want
• Organizational stakeholders are also users of your program
• Don’t forget about user support
11. Challenge 4: Practicing effective governance
• Ease stakeholder anxiety with effective change management
• Inspire collective ownership of the integrated roadmap
• Communicate strategically, not just tactically
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“…do no harm”
12. Challenge 5 – Being realistic in your approach
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“An apple a day…”
• Aim to show incremental value
• Always account for operational support
• Make agility a habit
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To recap
• Fund your vision
• Choose the right technology
• Listen to your users
• Practice effective governance
• Be realistic
Editor's Notes Think about supporting users