A new economic approach to process capability assessment is presented, which differs from the commonly used engineering metrics. The proposed metric consists of two economic capability measures – the expected profit and the variation in profit of the process. This dual economic metric offers a number of significant advantages over other engineering or economic metrics used in process capability...

Der Artikel diskutiert die Frage „Was ist gute IT-Beratung?“ auf der Basis eines Klassifizierungsansatzes für IT -Beratungen. Dieser orientiert sich an den fünf Reifegraden, die das CMMI in seiner so genannten „Staged Representation“ definiert.

We examine the relation between firms' debt maturity structures and the propensity to manage earnings. Our results indicate that (i) firms with more current debt are more susceptible to managing earnings, (ii) this relation is stronger for firms facing debt market constraints (those without investment grade debt) and (iii) auditor characteristics such as auditor quality and tenure help diminish...

– This paper discusses the idea of levels of autonomy of systems – be this technical or organic – and compares the insights with models employed by industries used to describe maturity and capability of their products.

We surveyed 736 IS professionals in organizations at varying levels of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to investigate job attitudes and perceptions. Although anecdotal reports and the scant preliminary empirical studies to-date suggest job attitudes and perceptions improve for employees as organizations climb the CMM ladder, we found evidence of a more complex picture. IS workers reported s...

The application of software evaluation technologies in different research fields to verify and validate research is a key factor in the progressive evolution of those fields. Nowadays, however, to have a clear picture of the maturity of the technologies used in evaluations or to know which steps to follow in order to improve the maturity of such technologies is not easy. This paper describes a ...

Business Intelligence Maturity: The Economic Transitional Context Within Slovenia Tomaž Lukman a , Ray Hackney b , Aleš Popovič c d , Jurij Jaklič c d & Zahir Irani c d a Department of Systems and Control, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia b Business School, Brunel University, Uxbridge, West London, United Kingdom c Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia d ...

The dynamic capabilities literature suggests that firms need to use both internal development and external sourcing to thrive over time, but we have a limited understanding of the conditions that best suit different sourcing choices. This study examines how constraints that arise from firms’ existing stocks of capabilities and from their internal social contexts shape their choices of capabilit...