The interest in Software Process Improvement (SPI) in the early 1990s stimulated tentative work on parallel models for Requirements Engineering (RE) process improvement in the late 1990s. This chapter examines the role of SPI and the implications of the exclusion of explicit support for RE in the most widely-used SPI models. The chapter describes the principal characteristics of three RE-specif...

Business Process Management (BPM) is an important discipline for organisations that are desiring quality improvement. Many models for assessing, comparing and improving the maturity of organisational BPM are found in literature. An effective BPM Maturity Model should contain a validated set of capability areas specific to the application domain. We attempt to fill a gap by providing a model spe...

The present business era is labeled by collaborations across enterprise boundaries and by utilisation of service-based computing. Pervasive computing utilities are created to match the basic business activities, such as contracting and breach management, adaptation of innovative business models, and collaboration management. Categories of computer assisted breeding environments and automated se...

interoperability refers to the ability to provide services and to accept services from other systems or devices. collaborative enterprises face additional challenges to interoperate seamlessly within a networked organization. the major task here is to assess the maturity level of interoperating organizations. for this purpose the maturity models for enterprise were reviewed based on vendors’ re...

The focus of this paper is to introduce a comprehensive model for assessing and improving maturity of business-IT alignment (B-ITa) in collaborative networked organizations (CNOs): the ICoNOs MM. This two dimensional maturity model (MM) addresses five levels of maturity as well as four domains to which these levels apply: partnering structure, information system (IS) architecture, process archi...

This study examines the connection between manpower development, business process performance and intelligence maturity in Nigeria. A large-scale survey was used to gather data on progressive decline ability of cope with challenges that accompany unfolding new dispensation industry. random sampling technique employed selecting a total 900 respondents from Nigerian population. 150 senior manager...

An eBusiness is one in which major parts of its core business processes are automated. This dependence on technology enables innovative business models, but also demands that developing supporting software systems involves carefully considering company's future strategy and business models. This paper presents a new approach to semi-automated component-based evolution of eBusiness support syste...