%0 Book
%A Michael Kohlegger
%D 2009
%C München, Germany
%I GRIN Verlag
%@ 9783640298266
%T Maturing Knowledge - Qualitative Analysis of existing Maturity Models and Implications for Knowledge Maturing
%R 10.3239/9783640298266
%U https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/124666
%X Although the efforts around the exploration of the process of knowledge maturing are very recent (e.g. Maier & Schmidt, 2007; Schmidt, 2005), the process behind them is not. Knowledge maturing has probably been exercised since the beginning of organisational work. Maier and Schmidt (2007, p. 3) published their knowledge maturing process after the analysis of several practical cases.
 In 2007, the European Union initiated an integrated research project called MATURE-IP to observe this knowledge maturing process in detail. The projects goals are to get a better understanding of the process of knowledge maturing within organisations and to develop tools or services to support this maturing process (MATURE-IP-Consortium, 2007). To get a deeper understanding for knowledge maturing, the existing knowledge maturity model is going to be rebuilt as a first step of the MATURE-IP. Therefore two sets of information are needed. On the one hand side it needs a lot of inputs about how learning and maturing takes place in everyday's organisational practice. On the other hand side it needs input information on the act of maturity modelling. Although literature comes up with a great amount of different maturity models, there have only been weak efforts to explore the process of maturity modelling itself. Ahlemann and Deuteberg came up with a definition proposal for maturity models in 2005 first (Ahlemann, Schroeder, & Teuteberg, 2005). However, this was just the beginning, as there is no meta maturity model – which is needed to create new well-founded maturity models – existing in literature yet. To make a first step in this direction this work tries to derive a catalogue of relevant model criteria from existing maturity models. The aim of this catalogue is to provide a basic concept for the creation of new maturity models – particularly the revised knowledge maturity model of MATURE-IP. That means that in MATURE-IP the input information on learning and maturing, which are collected through an ethnographical study, are used to create a knowledge maturity model on the basis of the outputs on meta maturity modelling of this work.
%K Maturity Model, Knowledge Management, Content Analysis
%G English