Assessing the readiness for enterprise collaboration and enterprise interoperability

It is widely recognized that collaboration and interoperability are key issues for organizations nowadays. Both concepts are different which shall not be confused, but they are so interconnected that they can be considered as the two sides of the same COIN. This position paper presents a strategy based on readiness assessment in order to adopt best collaboration and interoperability practices that will allow an organization to be competitive in the present business world. The readiness assessment instrument to be used is a methodology inspired on maturity models. For this purpose, a set of requirements for a COIN (Collaboration and Interoperability) maturity model are provided and an initial model is depicted. This work is performed within the frame of the COIN Integrated Project (sub-project 6).