0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E S e p t e m b e r / O c t o b e r 2 0 0 1 I E E E S O F T W A R E 33 current performance, recommendations for improvement, and a database containing the department’s historical project performance. The study concluded that the department as a whole produced applications cost effectively but more slowly than most other organizations in its in...

This conceptual paper in sustainable business research introduces a business sustainability maturity model as an innovative solution to support companies move towards sustainable development. Such model offers the possibility for each firm to individually assess its position regarding five sustainability maturity levels and, as a consequence, build a tailored as well as a common strategy along ...

Healthcare organisations must improve their business practices and internal procedures in order to answer the increasing demand of health professionals and the general public for more and better information. Hospitals invest massively in information systems and technology (IS/IT) in the hope that these investments will improve healthcare and meet patients’ demands. The main objective of our res...

Colin A Sharp The use of Capability Maturity Models in fi nancial management, project management, people management and information systems management in a wide variety of organisations indicates the potential for an Organisational Evaluation Capability Hierarchy to guide the self-diagnosis of organisations in building their evaluation maturity. This paper is about the theory behind this growin...