An analytics approach to adaptive maturity models using organizational characteristics

Background In the past decades, maturity models have become important tools to visualize progress in adopting processes and standards and to benchmark companies in their industry (Becker et al. 2009). Two of the best known and oldest maturity frameworks are the Capability Maturity Model (CMM; Paulk et al. 1993; Watts 1987) and its follow-up, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi; CMMI Product Team 2010). Aside from the aforementioned, over 150 maturity models have been developed (de Bruin et al. 2005), which can be classified in three types of models (Mettler et al. 2010):