To truly be effective, a cybersecurity program must continually evolve and improve. The problem is, many organizations don’t have a clear sense of where they are today and how to improve for tomorrow.

The highest level in this security maturity level is the optimized proactive posture where information security processes are a model of continual improvement. Like many things in life, cybersecurity ...

A primary goal of most businesses, particularly small businesses that have just started, is to grow and develop so that all processes are innovative, efficient and produce consistent, desirable ...

Maturity models examine where an organization is from a specific perspective and are used to help the organization advance to an ideal or desired state. Models can range from simple paper-and-pencil ...

Data can't generate valuable insights and improve decision-making without strong data governance. A data governance maturity model helps organizations evaluate current achievement levels and identify ...

Maturity models have emerged as pivotal instruments to gauge and steer the evolution of information systems practice across organisations. By articulating a set of progressive stages—ranging from ...

There are many signs that you’re at one end of the maturity spectrum or the other. To help CEOs and leaders determine where their organization stands, I created a business maturity model that maps an ...

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In the first blog of this series, we discussed the important role that an innovation maturity model (IMM) plays in creating a strategic, repeatable framework for innovation excellence. In this second ...

The sudden need for so many of us to work from home over the past several months has given a massive boost to distributed teamwork. Working patterns that had only existed on the sidelines became ...