Something must have happened to cause James McGovern to write this; an over-zealous vendor perhaps … Listen to this:

…the grand exalted CIO Guru stands on his/her pedestal and pontificates to the masses that identity management is the greatest thing since sliced bread, will ease the burden of compliance and that all applications will expose their inner workings to the big brother tool while their other non-technical process-weenie friends in other enterprises have done the me tooo thing.

These same CIOs … have been savage in hiring large consulting firms which backed up the school bus and have created “strategies” which are no more than very expensive PowerPoint cartoons that enable buy-in to folks who haven’t thought about why this approach may be hyper-inflated. It seems as if most of the enterprise architects are asleep at the wheel or practicing drunk driving in that they have allowed identity management to become a multiple year effort where pretty much everywhere else they have learned that long-term projects are doomed to mediocrity at best.

Would love to disagree, but I don’t think I can. There’s lots of this going around… not everybody and everything, though (but I don’t think that’s what he’s saying)