Overcoming the Ivory Tower: A Meta Model for Staged Maturity Models

Abstract

When it comes to the economic and strategic development of companies, maturity models are regarded as silver bullets. However, the existing discrepancy between the large amount of existing, differently developed models and their rare application remains astonishing. We focus on this phenomenon by analyzing the models' interpretability and possible structural and conceptual inconsistencies. By analyzing existing, staged maturity models, we develop a meta model for staged maturity models so different maturity models may share common semantics and syntax. Our meta model can therefore contribute to the conceptual rigor of existing and future maturity models in all domains and can be decisive for the success or failure of a maturity measurement in a company.

Do Procedure Models Actually Guide Maturity Model Design? A Citation Analysis

“…The results are positioned in the context of digitalization and Industry 4.0 as an area characterized by unpredictable dynamics that continuously change what can be considered the status quo (Verhoef et al, 2021). To successfully cope with this organizational transformation, maturity models focusing on digitalization and Industry 4.0 have emerged as useful tools (Bley et al, 2020). The comprehensive review by Caiado et al (2021) identified a total of 24 models, of which only 5 (Asdecker & Felch, 2018, Rübel et al, 2018, Schumacher et al, 2016, Scremin et al, 2018, Weber et al, 201720.8 %) rely on a procedure model for model design (see Table 4 and Appendix E).…”

A Maturity Model for Intraorganizational Online Collaboration

“…A MM describes the development of capabilities for a domain in a discrete sequence of maturity levels (Becker et al, 2009;Stelzl et al, 2020). MMs consist of several central constructs for which no uniform terminology exists in the literature (Bley et al, 2020;Lasrado et al, 2015;Stelzl et al, 2020). Therefore, an understanding of the terminology used in this paper relating to the MM meta-model by Bley et al (2020) is shown in Table 1.…”

An Information Systems Design Theory for Digital Broker Platforms

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