A Project Driven Approach for Enhanced Maturity Model Development for EAM Capability Evaluation

In today's rapidly changing markets, organizations have to make the best use of their capabilities and knowledge to reach their goals. Enterprise Architecture Management identifies such specific combination of know-how by planning, transforming and monitoring the complex structures, processes and relationships. Still, there is a need to evaluate the capabilities in terms of their qualitative requirements. Notwithstanding the criticism in academia and practice, the maturity models are proven to be a management instrument for capability assessment and improvement. In this respective, this paper proposes a preliminary approach to maturity model development that (a) aims to eliminate the drawbacks of maturity models and (b) fulfills the quality requirements in developing a maturity model as well as (c) meets specific demands provided by a research project partner.