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.