Development of maturity model for dryports in the Netherlands

This thesis presents a comprehensive study on the development of a maturity model for dryports. Through an extensive literature review, key functions and requirements of dryports were identified, providing a foundational understanding for subsequent research. To validate and enhance the identified functions, a stakeholder analysis was conducted...

An integrated self-assessment and maturity model for the urban smart factory

The concept of the Urban Smart Factory (USF), combining urban manufacturing with Industry 4.0 technologies, has emerged as a promising solution with significant value-added opportunities. However, there is a lack of maturity models specifically designed for assessing the maturity of companies in relation to the USF. To address this gap, this...

Extending Maturity Models With E-Procurement: Measuring and improving purchasing maturity of purchasing and supply management organisations in digital procurement

Digital transformation in procurement is important for Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) organisations to develop global organisational competitiveness. Generally, procurement performance can be determined and improved through the use of a maturity model. Existing models do not cover the latest (e-)procurement processes (E-Sourcing, Procure...

Managing the Maturity Model for Qualified Information Exchange

Getting trustworthy data in the right format and with the required accuracy is imperative for organizational processes. All governments face this challenge in getting the high quality data for administrative processes, decision-making and policy-making. In practice, many government agencies still struggle with getting the right data in the right...

Evaluating the maturity of companies in supplier master data management: The design of a maturity model

Master data is used to describe the critical entities of an organization, including customers, products, suppliers and employees. There are many challenges associated with the management of master data in large and distributed organizations. Master data management (MDM) has been proposed as way to integrate and combine data from different...

Assessment on the effect of flood defences asset management maturity to cost and performance

Maturity model has proven to be helpful for an organization to identify its current capability, strength, and weaknesses through maturity levels. These levels are used to rank the various dimension or process of an organization. However, maturity levels only describe a general description of organization capability. The effect of different...