Enhancing Organisational Maturity with Benefits Management

Jorge Gomes and Mário Romão
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Jorge Gomes: ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Mário Romão: ISEG - Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

International Journal of Information Technology Project Management (IJITPM), 2015, vol. 6, issue 4, 34-47

Abstract: The business challenges that some companies face require enterprise-wide solutions that call for an integrated approach and an effective management of organisational resources in order to achieve business objectives with an acceptable level of risk. A maturity model is an improvement approach which provides organisations with the essential elements for effective change. The maturity models process helps to integrate traditionally separate organisational functions, enhances goals and priorities, supplies guidance for quality processes and shares benchmarks for appraising current outcomes. The benefits management approach emerges as a complement to traditional management practices and proposes a continuous mapping of business benefits and the implementation and monitoring of intermediate results. Benefits management reinforces the distinction between project results and business benefits. Based on a case study, the authors show how a set of business objectives derived from a maturity level upgrade can be obtained from identifying, structuring and monitoring objectives and benefits. This was supported by information technology enablers and organisational changes which were all framed in an organisational maturity level that had been previously measured.

Date: 2015
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