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Digital Maturity Models – a Bibliometric Exploration

Abstract This paper aims to investigate literature on digital maturity modelling in order to build a better understanding of this field of research which is gaining increased attention from both public as well as private institutions. The objective of the study is to outline a clear vision of what the main areas of research related to digital maturity models are and ultimately map out particular research directions that could benefit from further academic attention in the future. For this purpose, a bibliometric analysis was employed, relying on academic publishing data obtained from the Scopus scientific database. After selection and filtering, 468 pieces of literature were deemed relevant and were subsequently mapped for analysis using co-occurrence and bibliographic coupling. Results show that there is an exponential increase in academic attention for digital maturity modelling in the last 3 years, with recent interest being focused towards the manufacturing sector and small and medium sized enterprises, while other expected sectors such as e-government have fallen behind. It has also been found that digital maturity modelling is in a divergent stage, producing a large amount of different models and only in the last year there are signs of attempts at converging existing knowledge into fewer models with a more rigorous, quantitative development. Consequently, this paper proposes that a key direction of research for digital maturity modelling should be the addition of quantitative based evaluation of digital maturity components and their effectiveness as part of a digital maturity model.

Filth, Incontinence and Border Protection

Filth, Incontinence and Border Protection

The Date of the Linear B Tablets frome Knossos

In an article in the Observer for 3 July, and again in the Listener for 27 October, 1960, Professor L. R. Palmer argues that the Linear B inscribed clay tablets found at Knossos date not from the end of the I 5th century B.C. but from a time some two hundred years or so later. These tablets according to the excavator of Knossos, Sir Arthur Evans, belonged to the age of what he called the ‘Last Palace’, destroyed about 1400 B.C. But after the destruction of the ‘Last Palace’ the site was not abandoned ; it was reoccupied and inhabited for another hundred years or so. Evans thought that this re-occupation was due to ‘squatters’ who had made dwellings for themselves among the ruins of the old palace. But the character of what Evans found dating from this ‘Re-occupation period’ (as he called it) fits better in some ways with the idea of a restored palace than with that of an occupation by ‘squatters’. Evans himself was not unaware of this, and once at least hinted at the possibility of a palatial reoccupation, although he subsequently veered away from the idea. In the domestic quarter of the palace he noted ‘signs of attempts at restoration on a large scale (i.e. after the destruction of the “Last Palace”) which make it probable that dynasts of the old stock still maintained a diminished state on the palace site.’ It is therefore possible that Professor Palmer is right in believing that there was another palace on the site of the earlier Palaces at Knossos during the ‘Re-occupation period’ of the 14th and 13th centuries B.C. But of this latest palace, if palace it was, owing to erosion and stone-plundering through the centuries, comparatively little had survived when Evans began to excavate. It was in any case almost certainly poor and mean compared with the other great palaces which had preceded it on the site. This was indeed a time, the 14th and 13th centuries B.C., of general impoverishment and decline throughout the civilized world including Egypt and the Near East.