The Oracle Identity Management Resource Library has some very interesting and useful stuff that warrants attention. It’s all, of course, geared to sell you Oracle product, and therefore is for the most part very “high level”. Having said that, the issues and strategies presented should resonate with anyone who has struggled with the mechanics of IDM (there, another acronym — acronyms are good, they usually lead to higher salaries, in direct proportion to the obscurity of the acronym).
Give a listen (while you work, the slides can safely be ignored) to some of the webcasts, especially the customer discussion panel. If your management is impressed by such things, you might also want to grab the latest Gartner “Magic Quadrant” and some of the other analysts reports there (take what you read there with a grain of salt, most of these “experts” wouldn’t know a code 27 from a code 28 to save their own lives — which explains why many commercial products don’t either).