Organisations face many challenges, which induce them to perform better,
and thus to establish mature (or excellent) business processes. As they
now face globalisation, higher competitiveness, demanding customers,
growing IT possibilities, compliancy rules etc., business process
maturity models (BPMMs) have been introduced to help organisations
gradually assess and improve their business processes (e.g. CMMI or
OMG-BPMM). In fact, there are now so many BPMMs to choose from that
organisations risk selecting one that does not fit their needs or one of
substandard quality. This book presents a study that distinguishes
process management from process orientation so as to arrive at a common
understanding. It also includes a classification study to identify the
capability areas and maturity types of 69 existing BPMMs, in order to
strengthen the basis of available BPMMs. Lastly it presents a selection
study to identify criteria for choosing one BPMM from the broad
selection, which produced a free online selection tool, BPMM
Smart-Selector.