This paper describes how a 500 person information systems (IS) organization within the Bluejay Company (a pseudonym) used the Software Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) as a foundation to develop IS organizational maturity. “Maturity” within a corporate IS organization is analyzed and four factors involved in the maturation process are identified. These factors are s...

The importance of business process management goes without saying. As its realization is less straightforward, maturity models have been developed to gradually assess and improve business processes. Although their aim is to assist organizations, the proliferation of maturity models also confuses organizations. They have no overview of existing models and their differences, which makes an inform...

Even after significant resources are poured into software development process, software development process maturity and productivity are still low. Organizational learning has long been realized as a key strategy for improving performance. In our research, we argued that organizational learning could affect the software development process maturity. Data collected via a survey of two groups th...

Overall dental maturity was studied semilongitudinally in a group of 248 healthy children born in Helsinki in 1968-73. In all, 738 orthopantomograms were taken of these children at ages of 2.5-16.5 years. Overall dental maturity was estimated by the method of Demirjian and Goldstein, which is based on the development of seven left mandibular permanent teeth. The aim of the study was to construc...

GIS is a technology with the potential to transform government by enhancing business processes and providing a platform to manage spatial and non-spatial data, which is expected to result in better decision-making. However, little is known about how this technology is actually implemented organization-wide and the environment surrounding its use. Current GIS maturity models have not examined us...

Business-IT alignment can be achieved at various levels of maturity. Supposing that an organization has tried to achieve business-IT alignment, a question to face is: how is that organization going to know the level of maturity of its alignment situation in order to plan future ways of action? That organization will need a guide for determining the maturity of its business-IT alignment, and for...

The concept of process maturity suggests that a process has a lifecycle that is assessed by the extent to which it is defined, managed, measured, and controlled. Organisational policies, standards, and structures are institutionalised as organisations increase their process maturity, leading to higher levels of process capability. This concept has been applied to supply chains by researchers th...

A Maturity Model of Evaluating Requirements Specification Techniques. (August 2003) Yonghee Shin, B.S., Sookmyung Women’s University Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Hoh In It is important to evaluate and understand the state-of-art technologies to position our research and invest our energy and resources in more effective ways. Unfortunately, no systematic approach has been introduced to evalu...

It is accepted among scholars that coping changes as people mature during adolescence, but little is known about the relationship between maturity and coping. The purpose of this paper was to assess a model, which included dispositional coping, coping effectiveness, and cognitive social maturity. We predicted that cognitive social maturity would have a direct effect on coping effectiveness, and...