Identity Strategy Blueprint
Expert Guidance From Current State to a Long-Term Identity Strategy
Get a target vision, guiding principles and a prioritized roadmap for how identity and access are managed across your organization. Your leadership and teams gain one shared basis for deciding which initiatives come first, which tools fit and how the program moves forward.
Designed for:
- Identity Program Owners
- CISOs and CIOs
- Identity Architects
Ideal for organizations that need:
- Leadership buy-in for their identity program
- One overall identity strategy
- To become implementation-ready quickly
Focus of the blueprint:
What You Get from the Blueprint
In collaborative workshops, we assess your current state across all identity domains and turn the findings into a plan your leadership can support.
A Complete Picture
Clear Priorities
Leadership Buy-In
Readiness to Execute
When a Blueprint Makes Sense
The blueprint fits organizations of any size and industry, whatever their starting point, and gives them one clear direction for identity.
Typical starting points are a new IAM program, an existing program that has lost direction, or organizational change such as a merger, an acquisition or a divestiture.
Starting a New IAM Program
Identity is handled project by project, without a target state. Before committing to tools and budgets, you need to know where to start.
Existing Program Without a Clear Direction
The tools are in place, but progress has stalled. Business units or locations handle identity differently, and there is no agreement on what comes next.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Two technology stacks, two sets of processes and overlapping identities that now have to work as one.
Divestitures
Identities, access and data that used to be shared now have to be separated cleanly and in the right order.
All Identity Domains, United in One Program
The blueprint assesses each core domain of IAM and the program that holds them together, and defines a target state for each.
Strategic oversight, standards, operating model and clear ownership across all domains.
Identity Governance & Administration (IGA)
Identity lifecycle, access governance and visibility into who has access to what.
Access Management (AM)
Authentication and authorization for workforce and customers, with a smooth user experience.
Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Controlled, monitored elevated access with least privilege.
80% People and Process 20% Technology
Each identity domain is assessed across three dimensions, with the emphasis on people and process.
People
Process
Technology
What's Included in the Blueprint
The blueprint is customized to what your organization needs. You always receive a roadmap and a reference architecture, and together we select the workshops and analyses that lead there.
Workshops and Analyses, Tailored to You
Workshops
Current-State Discovery
How identity works in your organization today
Future-State Planning
What good looks like for your organization
Executive Briefing
Results presented to your executives in a narrative written for them
Education Sessions
What IAM contributes to security, compliance and the business
Analyses
Capability Matrix
One table rating every identity capability: current state, recommended practice, risk of inaction, complexity and risk score
Program Alignment
Mission, drivers and guiding principles for your program
Vendor Considerations
Stay with current tools or move? If technology selection matters to you, a shortlist of two or three options. The decision stays with you.
Organizational Resource Alignment
The roles your program needs and their responsibilities
Your Results
Recommendations and Roadmap
Recommendations for each identity domain and your program, turned into a prioritized multi-year plan with key activities, expected benefits and the reasoning behind the order. Steps where iC Consult can support implementation are marked.
Reference Architecture
A high-level view of how your identity components and tools should work together.
Five Phases From Kickoff to Executive Sign-Off
Prerequisites
Kickoff, scope, success criteria and your subject matter experts.
Result: Agreed scope
Discovery
Workshops on your IAM landscape, priority applications and all identity domains.
Result: Current-state findings
Document & Review
Findings validated with your stakeholders and compared with the target state.
Result: Identified gaps and draft roadmap
Recommendations
Final recommendations, presented to your executive stakeholders.
Result: Final roadmap and sign-off
Wrap Up
Lessons learned, open follow-ups and next steps toward implementation.
Result: Next steps for implementation
How Long Does It Take?
That depends on scope and on your team's availability. With intensive on-site discovery, a blueprint can be done in under a month. With weekly sessions, it runs over several months.
Why iC Consult
An identity strategy only pays off if it can be implemented. With over 25 years in identity security, more than 850 identity specialists and over 30 technology partners, we know what it takes to turn a target state into a working program.
Advisors With Delivery Experience
Expertise Across the Identity Stack
Vendor-Independent, Partner-Connected
Built for Enterprise Scale
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an Identity Strategy Blueprint?
An advisory engagement that defines the target vision and guiding principles for identity and access management in your organization. It aligns IAM capabilities with business objectives, security requirements and regulatory obligations, and turns them into a prioritized roadmap.
How long does a blueprint take?
It depends on scope and on your team’s availability. Intensive on-site discovery can bring a blueprint to completion in under a month. With weekly discovery sessions, engagements typically run for several months.
Does the blueprint include technology selection?
When it’s relevant to you, yes. We typically narrow the options down to two or three recommended solutions and leave the final decision to you and your leadership.
How is the blueprint priced?
The price depends on scope and the building blocks you select. Talk to us about your starting point and we’ll prepare a quote.
What happens after the blueprint?
Implementation can be done by your own team, by iC Consult or together. The roadmap shows where we can support.
Plan Your Next Identity Investments on a Solid Basis
Preparing your identity budget for 2027? The blueprint gives you a roadmap to base it on.