The concept of process maturity proposes that a process has a lifecycle that is measured by the extent to which the process is explicitly defined, managed, measured, controlled and effective. A maturity model assumes that progress comes in stages, ultimately reaching an end goal. The supply chain maturity model is based upon concepts developed by Philip Crosby, who devised a maturity grid for t...

The basic purpose of an Enterprise Architecture project is creating integrity among different enterprise components, including processes, systems, technologies, and etc. While CMMI focuses on improving the process of an organization and covers necessary elements relating to one organization distinguished by different maturity levels referenced as level 1 through level 5. In our previous paper [...

In order to enhance their global business performance, organizations must be careful with the quality of their information since it is one of their main assets. Analogies to quality management of classical products demonstrate that Information Quality is also preferably attainable through management by integrating some corresponding Information Quality management activities into the organizatio...

Based on the specific elements in terms of process area, project, practice and relevant methodologies, which were adopted from Capability Maturity Model Integration(CMMI), this paper studied feasible appraisal program that combined the CMMI implementation cycle model into entire software process, therefore, the index system and measurement model in measuring the quality of software developing p...

This paper presents a research work investigating the level of maturity of New Service Development (NSD) processes of manufacturing companies for the development of product services. A preliminary Maturity Model to assess the maturity level of companies in NSD is proposed. Three case studies have been carried out, and companies were involved hands-on in a workshop to discuss ongoing projects an...

In order to solve the problem of highway standardization management ability description, evaluation and improvement, in this paper, a highway standardization management maturity evaluation model has firstly been put forward. Moreover, the influence highway qualitative factors of implementing the standardized management have analyzed and its evaluation index system has constructed. Furthermore, ...

We study the behavior of the critical price of an American put option near maturity in the jump diffusion model when the underlying stock pays dividends at a continuous rate and the limit of the critical price is smaller than the stock price. In particular, we prove that, unlike the case where the limit is equal to the strike price, jumps can influence the convergence rate.

An alternative technique for the geometric test of machining centres was developed, to congregate metrological reliability with operational and economical advantages, when comparing to methods classically used for such task. A touch probe is used on a 3-axis vertical machine center to check against artifacts calibrated on a coordinate measuring machine (CMM). By comparing the results obtained f...