Purpose – Maturity models are a prospering approach to improving a company’s processes and business process management (BPM) capabilities. In fact, the number of corresponding maturity models is such high that practitioners and scholars run the risk of losing track. We therefore provide a systematic in-depth review of BPM maturity models. Design/methodology/approach – The paper follows the acce...

May 1999 Continuous process improvement is based on many small, evolutionary steps rather than revolutionary innovations. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) provides a framework for organizing these evolutionary steps into five maturity levels that lay successive foundations for continuous process improvement. These five maturity levels define an ordinal scale for measuring the maturity of an ...

The implementation of an enterprise-level business intelligence initiative is a large-scale and complex undertaking, involving significant expenditure and multiple stakeholders over a lengthy period. It is therefore imperative to have systematic guidelines for business intelligence stakeholders in referring business intelligence maturity levels. Draw upon the prudent concepts of the Capability ...

Existing empirical research on the business value of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) has only measured the extent of SOA adoption – but not maturity – to determine whether typical goals, like increased business agility or IT cost reduction, could be achieved. However, a widely implemented SOA might be less mature than an SOA adopted only in particular areas of the organization, which in tu...

background: one of the factors that can improve self-concept and performance of staff is professional maturity. professional maturity can also solve the problems of self-concept. the purpose of this paper was to identify the relationship between the dimensions of self-concept and professional maturity.   materials and methods: this relative applicable study was performed on all the personnel (n...

Although a classic staged maturity framework with 5 levels was introduced by W. S. Humphrey back in 1988, its basic ideas remain essentially unchanged and they are still employed in CMMI and other maturity models. ISO/IEC 15504, formerly known as SPICE, has promoted a continuous model for process capability assessment. Not long ago SPICE community recognized the benefits of a staged representat...

The debt maturity of U.S. industrial firms decreased over the past three decades. This decrease in maturity is driven by the smallest firms for which the median percentage of long-term debt has decreased from 53% in 1976 to 6% in 2008. For large firms, however, debt maturity has not declined. Information asymmetry plays an important role in explaining the decrease in debt maturity, while debt a...

IT governance (ITG) provides a toolbox for companies to realize maximum value from IT. Firms implement ITG via frameworks, such as COBIT or VALIT, which list processes to align business and IT strategies, deliver IT services and comply with regulations. While there exists evidence that companies with mature ITG processes outperform their competitors and that signaling ITG maturity to external s...

To support the difficult process of SOA adoption, SOA maturity models are published. In this thesis a literature analysis introduces the area of SOA maturity models and highlights benefits and criticism. As a result, the combined SOA maturity model (CSOAMM), a model to facilitate the interpretation and comparison of SOA maturity models, is proposed. CSOAMM is a model with 10 levels that describ...