In order to improve transparency and stabilise health care costs, several countries have decided to reform their healthcare system on the basis of diagnosisrelated groups (DRG). DRGs are not only used for classifying medical treatments, but also for case-based reimbursement, hence induce active competition among hospitals, forcing them to become more efficient and effective. In consequence, hos...

Maturity models enabling the assessment of integrated management systems (IMS) are crucial in order to provide a comparison between IMS from different companies. This paper intends to report the efforts made and the methodologies followed to develop an IMS maturity assessment model. Additionally, the paper aims at presenting such model, illustrate its usefulness, and demonstrate how companies m...

Project management is of high significance for companies nowadays. This is of special interest for those organizations which operate in the multi-project environment. For them, it is crucial to find out how good they are at managing projects. To that end, the project management maturity assessment concept was developed. However, getting a picture of the organization is only the first step. The ...

today, enterprise architecture(ea) is one of the most important it solutions for business and it strategic alignment and also it is so supportive and effective tool for organizing and managing complicated information system in dynamic organization environment. due to efficient enterprise architecture management the organization can obtain the ea valuable benefits. ea maturity assessment is a he...

The Data Management Association (DAMA) published body of knowledge framework defines the responsibility of IT professionals across the development life-cycle with respect to the domain of information engineering. Yet, it is not information that is power, it is applied information. The Capability Maturity Model (CMMI) of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) promotes not only managing a proje...

The purpose of the article is to determine maturity level risk management in IT projects. To achieve this goal, most popular models were analyzed. This analysis allows identification methods and mechanisms for determining levels, strengths weaknesses each model, study findings obtained from their use. Based on data obtained, author’s model projects was developed tested, considering analyzed mod...

Research has been done within the South African information technology (IT) industry over the last decade with regard to project management maturity (PMM) and the impact it has on delivering information systems (IS) projects successfully. The research was done to determine whether IS PMM per knowledge area has improved over the last decade. It investigates if there is a correlation between matu...