The present paper explored the relationship between environmental sustainability and the use of IT. Based on interviews with seven " Green IT " experts and evangelists, we constructed a questionnaire for CIOs on this important issue. After collecting interview data from CIOs in ten organizations, we found that organizations are at different levels of maturity regarding environmental sustainabil...

This note explores the behaviour of the implied volatility of a European call option far frommaturity. Asymptotic formulae are derived with precise control over the error terms. The connection between the asymptotic implied volatility and the cumulant generating function of the logarithm of the underlying stock price is discussed in detail and illustrated by examples.

This article describes an ICT-based and capability-driven model for assessing ICT in education capabilities and maturity of schools. The proposed model, called ICTE-MM (ICT in School Education Maturity Model), has three elements supporting educational processes: information criteria, ICT resources, and leverage domains. Changing the traditional and exclusive focus on ICT, five Leverage Domains ...

FeatuReS | 63 In many nations today, the state has little capability to implement even basic functions such as security, policing, regulation, or core service delivery. Enhancing this capability, especially in fragile states, is a long-term task.2 As we document in this article, countries such as Haiti and Liberia will take many decades to reach even a moderate capability country such as India,...

The E-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) is a quality improvement framework designed to help institutional leaders assess their institution's e-learning maturity. This paper reviews the eMM, drawing on examples of assessments conducted in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the USA to show how it helps institutional leaders assess and compare their institution's capability to sustainably develop, dep...

Despite recent progress with Decision support systems (DSS) development methodologies, a gap still exist in terms of the ability to assess the maturity of an organization with respect to its DSS development process. A need exist to be able to describe DSS development processes at a meta-level. Equally important is the ability to provide organization with prescriptions to increase the maturity o...

Purpose. While it is commonly recognised that Big Data have an immense potential to generate value for business organisations, appropriating value from Big Data and, in particular, Big Data-enabled analytics is still an open issue for many organisations. This paper develops a maturity model to support organisations in the realisation of the value created by Big Data. Design/Methodology/Approach...

In this article a maturity model is proposed, named OD-MM (Open Data Maturity Model) to assess the commitment and capabilities of public agencies in pursuing the principles and practices of open data. The OD-MM model has a three level hierarchical structure, called domains, sub-domains and critical variables. Four capacity levels are defined for each of the 33 critical variables distributed in ...

ePCMM (e-Learning Process Capability Maturity Model) is used for evaluating the capability and maturity of an institution engaged in e-Learning based on e-Learning key process areas. It is a stepwise process improvement which can be implemented by both staged model and continues model.

a Environmental Change Institutue, School of Geography and Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom b School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, United States Engineering Management Program, System Development and Maturity Lab, School of Systems and Enterprises, Stevens Institute of Technology, United States d Facultad de Ingenieria, Universidad Central de Ve...