Maturity Model Architect: A Tool for Maturity Assessment Support

Abstract

A Maturity Model represents a path towards an increasingly organized and systematic way of doing business. It is therefore a widely-used technique valuable to assess certain aspects of organizations, as for example business processes. A maturity assessment can enable stakeholders to clearly identify strengths and improvement points, and prioritize actions in order to reach higher maturity levels. Doing maturity assessments can range from simple self-assessment questionnaires to full-blown assessment methods. This work presents the Maturity Model Architect (MMArch), a maturity model repository and assessment tool, which purpose is to provide support for executing maturity assessment making use of enterprise architecture models, ontologies and description logics. For this purpose, this work details three possible methods for governing the application of these techniques. The main goal of this work is to develop a tool with the purpose of automating and supporting maturity assessment.