E-government is said to be an efficient and effective way of delivering government services to its customers. Web information accessibility and online transactional services increase transparency, openness of bureaucratic institutions and reduce cost of transactions. Global e-government surveys which portray the trend in countries’ e-government readiness and stage of e-government maturity rank ...

Electronic business provides many benefits to organizations that embrace on it. It is true that ebusiness improve business processes, integrate business processes and its corresponding value chain, give speed to internal and external organizational activities etc, but it poses the greatest challenge to today’s organizations to transform their traditional businesses into electronic business. To ...

INTRODUCTION With PACS and medical imaging technology maturing, the importance of organizational maturity and effective deployment of PACS in the hospital enterprise are becoming significant. OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is twofold. Firstly, PACS literature on maturity and evolvability in the hospital enterprise is analyzed, resulting in an overview of the relevant developments conce...

In this paper, we argue that effective Integrated Performance Management (IPM) needs both strategic and maturity alignment. The management literature focuses on strategic alignment; in this paper we develop the concept of maturity alignment. Maturity alignment indicates that an organization must install the appropriate managerial and operational processes in accordance with the desired maturity...

Information Systems and Technologies (IST) in healthcare have evolved gradually, and theories about IST adoption and maturity are sufficiently established in the literature of organizational management. This paper examines the evolution of IST in healthcare. The author introduces concepts associated with maturity models, addresses the generic maturity model for IST management, and presents the ...

CMMI and ISO/IEC 15504 are two main models for software process assessment and improvement. Both models have staged and continuous representations but these are different. Continuous representations of the models propose the different sets of processes (process areas). The differences of staged representations are even more essential. CMMI staged representation is based on the ideas of a classi...

One of the recently developed classes of decision making tools for software engineering management is the organizational maturity assessment. The scores from such assessments are being applied in focusing and tracking self-improvement efforts, and as part of the contract award decision making process. However, until now, the important issue of the reliability of assessments has rarely been addr...

Knowledge is a valuable corporate asset and must be properly managed. No generally accepted methodology exists for assessing the maturity of an organization with respect to the management of its knowledge resources. This paper develops and tests an instrument that organizations can use to self-assess their knowledge management maturity (KMM). Five levels of maturity are defined. These levels ar...

The SEI’s Capability Maturity Model for Software has popularized the notion of measuring the software process maturity of organizations. ISO’s SPICE project is currently creating a set of international standards for software process management that harmonize existing approaches. One of the objectives is to create a way of measuring process capability, while not using a specific approach such as...