Enterprise wide large scale process modeling initiatives are becoming increasingly common among enterprises in all industry domains. Since such initiatives are operationally cumbersome, it becomes essential to assess the maturity and implementation of enterprise wide process modeling program on a regular basis. Though there are numerous research reports relating to maturity assessment for busin...

The paper presents a measurement framework for assessing the eGovernance maturity level of countries through the analysis of municipal websites. The paper also introduces the results of a survey carried out to apply and validate the framework. Applied to municipal websites of different countries, the framework considers websites content and design. For each country, the sample included three we...

A key success factor for a successful company in a dynamic environment is effective and efficient information technology (IT) supporting business strategies and processes. Organizations that successfully align their business strategy and their IT strategy outperform their non-aligned peers (Chan et al., 1997). In recent surveys IT executives consistently name IT to Business alignment their top-...

Procurement is increasingly important for organizations acting in dynamic and competitive markets. In practice however, companies struggle with adopting and implementing improvements in the procurement domain. Complexity hampers the achievement of a solid procurement approach that truly integrates all organizational aspects and levels. The central aim of this working paper is to develop a frame...

SOAMMI a new framework for evaluating capabilities for change of enterprise and service-oriented software architectures is introduced. Current approaches for assessing maturity of software architectures are intuitively developed, having sparse metamodel foundation and being hardly validated. This is a real problem because enterprise and software architects should know what the successful path f...

Many software organizations face serious problems in their attempts to make expectations and realities meet in introducing CASE technology. One promising approach to understanding CASE introduction better and to managing it more effectively has been developed by relating CASE introduction to the Capability Maturity Model. This paper reviews software process maturity as a framework for CASE intr...

Sustainable ICT (SICT) can develop solutions that offer benefits both internally in IT and across the extended enterprise. However, because the field is new and evolving, few guidelines and best practices are available. There is a need to improve the SICT behaviours, practices and processes within organizations to deliver greater value from SICT. To address the issue, a consortium of leading or...

This chapter provides an overview of the Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM VI.1). CMM Vl. l describes the software engineering and management practices that characterize organizations as their processes for developing and maintaining software mature. This chapter stresses the need for a process maturity framework to prioritize improvement actions; describes the five maturity levels, k...

The illiquidity of long-maturity options has made it difficult to study the term structures of option spanning portfolios. This paper proposes a new estimation and inference framework for these option-implied term structures that addresses long-maturity illiquidity. By building a sieve estimator around the risk-neutral valuation equation, the framework theoretically justifies (fattailed) extrap...

today, information technology services are considered as valuable resources in all areas. for making information technology management processes purposeful and efficient in different organizations – as a competitive and strategic advantage (especially in organizations responsible for health care services) – it is necessary to recognize the level of maturity of the organization and review its pr...