Approach for Information System Maturity Assessment

Nowadays, many organizations face the issue of information and communication technology (ICT) management. The organization undertakes various activities to assess the state of their ICT or the entire information system (IS), such as IS audits, reviews, IS due diligence, or they already have implemented systems to gather information regarding their IS. For the organizations’ boards and managers there is an issue how to evaluate current IS maturity level and based on assessments, define the IS strategy how to reach the maturity target level. The problem is, what kind of approach to use for rapid and effective IS maturity assessment. This paper summarizes the research regarding IS maturity within different organizations where the authors have delivered either complete IS due diligence or made partial analysis by IS Mirror method. The main objective of this research is to present and confirm the approach which could be used for effective IS maturity assessment and could be provided quickly and even remotely. The paper presented research question, related hypothesis, and approach for rapid IS maturity assessment, and results from several case studies made on-site or remotely.