Most often the efforts to leverage organizational competencies are directed towards use of data and technology, overlooking the human and organizational structural capital parts of knowledge within the organization. This paper adopts a holistic approach to understanding and realizing the value within the human, data and processual capital in the organization via the Intellectual Bandwidth (IB) ...

Product lifecycle management (PLM) adoption includes very extensive changes in intraand inter-organizational practices and requires new types of skills and capabilities. A controlled PLM implementation can therefore be very challenging in practice. PLM maturity models, often at least partly based on the thinking of CMM (Capability maturity modeling) can be used to make the implementation of PLM...

Beyond critique of current maturity models, the research literature has neglected to supply empirical evidence of the value Knowledge Management (KM) holds for organizations. Specifically, not much is known regarding KM in developing economies. The majority of studies, in common with other emergent business philosophies, are for the most part focused on large organizations of developed economie...

Beyond critique of current maturity models, the research literature has neglected to supply empirical evidence of the value Knowledge Management (KM) holds for organizations. Specifically, not much is known regarding KM in developing economies. The majority of studies, in common with other emergent business philosophies, are for the most part focused on large organizations of developed economie...

This paper describes an ontology-based software infrastructure for retaining and maintaining theoretical Knowledge Management Maturity Models (ONTOKNOM3) by the use of a KM Maturity Model Ontology. Moreover ONTOKNOM3 provides technical means for designing a web-based system, that supports the form-based self-evaluation of an organization with regard to its current maturity level, as well as for...

The object of this article is to present the most cited maturity models and the organizational evolutions, instigated mainly by Internet and electronic commerce. We will observe with these theories, how companies become progressively more flexible, more externalized, less centralized within a network, due to e-commerce. Keywords— Internet, e-commerce , maturity stages, integration, new organiza...

This paper presents a study of the relationship between business process management maturity and innovation in organizations. Data was collected with a questionnaire that was based on three theoretical models namely a BPM maturity model, and adoption of innovations model and the innovation values chain. Data was collected from several organizations ranging from small to large in several countri...

Many software organizations face serious problems in their attempts to make expectations and realities meet in introducing CASE technology. One promising approach to understanding CASE introduction better and to managing it more effectively has been developed by relating CASE introduction to the Capability Maturity Model. This paper reviews software process maturity as a framework for CASE intr...