The IT-Capability Maturity Model [IT-CMF] is a high-level process capability maturity framework for managing the IT function within an organization. The purpose of this paper is to explore and explain the IT-CMF as a “ method meta-model” for IT management, emphasizing the novel approach to addressing the application of design processes and design artifacts by means of a very structured use of e...

194 Abstract– Using pattern as proved solution helps to achieve SOA strategic goals. Maturity models are parental framework for SOA roadmaps, and Architecture is an important dimension for maturity models. Architecture has different views, Usually Reference architecture and pattern languages present runtime view of architecture dimension. This paper presents pattern language that creates alloca...

The IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) has been adopted as the de facto standard for IT Service Management (ITSM). This Paper discusses the value of ITIL-based maturity assessments for the IT service recipient in an outsourcing arrangement. We present the Client Outsourcing Maturity Model (COMM), a three-dimensional framework developed at HP Labs, and we provide an example of its assessment metho...

Research on information technology (IT) outsourcing adoption has been confined to a single-country perspective. The understanding of how country-specific variables influence the adoption of IT outsourcing is limited. This study uses new institutional economics to build a framework that links country-level factors to the adoption of IT domestic outsourcing. The authors suggest that country-level...

To measure dedicated aspects of “maturity”, a range of maturity models have been developed in the field of information systems by practitioners and academics over the past years. Despite its broad proliferation, the concept has not escaped criticism. Unnecessary bureaucracy, poor theoretical foundation, and the impression of a falsified certainty to achieve success are a few examples. As there ...

How to cite this article: Esterhuizen, D., Schutte, C. & Du Toit, A., 2012, ‘A knowledge management framework to grow innovation capability maturity’, SA Journal of Information Management 14(1), Art. #495, 10 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ sajim.v14i1.495 Background: Innovation is a key prerequisite for being organisationally competitive. Therefore, it is imperative that enterprises grow and...

Throughout the Federal Government, including the Department of Defense (DoD), there is a pervasive need to have current, reliable, and trusted data from what are termed Authoritative Data Sources (ADSs). This requirement has grown increasingly important as the military transforms. The transformation requires individual organizations, each using an array of independently developed stovepipe syst...

Knowledge has become a primary organizational resource and many organizations have focused attention on Knowledge Management (KM) as a means of enhancing their performance. KM encompasses a range of activities including the creation and capture of knowledge, the transfer or sharing of this knowledge and its application and reuse in organizations. KM has also been defined as providing the strate...

This article presents the results and lessons learned in the application of the Framework for the Modelling and Measurement of Software Processes (FMESP) in a software company dedicated to the development and maintenance of software for information systems. The aim of FMESP is to provide companies with a conceptual and technological framework for the management of their process models and measu...