The Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM): What, Why And How

Today, management has no standards by which to assess the maturity of their business processes. As a result, they have no method to assess the risk immature processes pose to enterprise IT projects, or to identify the causes of weaknesses in their process workflows that, if addressed, could reduce cost and increase operating efficiency. This model provides an open-standard roadmap for assessing process maturity and guiding business process improvement and is currently being promoted as an OMG standard by the Business Process Management Steering Committee within the Object Management Group (OMG). In this paper, the authors introduce the concept and discuss the major components of the BPMM.