Nowadays the investments made by organizations to get better business performances are crucial and difficult to obtain. So, it ́s more and more important that the business-cases underline not only the shortterm objectives, but also the long-term benefits that promotes a sustainable future for organizations and investors. The main objective of our research is to study how investments on IS/IT inf...

This paper presents the project management process maturity (PM) model that determines and positions an organization’s relative project management level with other organizations. The comprehensive model follows a systematic approach to establish an organization’s current project management level. Each maturity level consists of major project management characteristics, factors, and processes. T...

Innovation Management generally combines high costs with a high rate of failure. The resulting risk can be approached with an assessment of the organizational innovation capability. For this purpose, Innovation Capability Maturity Models (ICMMs) have been developed by recent research. This paper strives to make these models applicable for networks, by considering the differing requirements of a...

Organizational knowledge is a crucial aspect for the strategic planning of an enterprise. The enterprise architecture management (EAM) deals with all perspectives of the enterprise architecture with regard to planning, transforming and monitoring. Maturity models are established instruments for assessing these processes in organizations. Applying the maturity model development process (MMDP), w...

Many organizations have recognized the importance of increasing commitment towards delivering longterm success of Business Intelligence (BI). However, effective BI strategies and governance to accommodate the rapid growth of data volumes are still scarce. Furthermore, there appears to be low usage rates of BI and analytics among business users. Consequently, many organizations are still positio...

The SEI’s Capability Maturity Model for Software has popularized the notion of measuring the software process maturity of organizations. ISO’s SPICE project is currently creating a set of international standards for software process management that attempts to harmonize existing approaches. One of the SPICE objectives is to create a way of measuring process capability, while not using a specifi...

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-...

The Software Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) has become a popular Software Process Improvement (SPI) model for enhancing software development processes with the goal of developing high-quality software within budget and schedule. Since Software development effort can be greatly affected by the organizational process maturity level, this study examines the impact of different CMMI-b...