Project management maturity in a highly innovative and technologically intense context

Abstract

Project management maturity can be of utmost importance for companies since their project management process can be improved to a great extent. An effective and efficient project management process can be the key to survival and/or achieving competitive advantage (c.f. Cleland, 1994; Deutsch et al., 2020). Researchers were focusing on identifying the best-suited models (see e.g. Cooke-Davies – Arzymanov, 2003; Kerzner, 2019), but the majority of these models do not consider the specialties and the nature of the different industries. Thus, the aim of this paper is to define a project management maturity approach based on these models, which consider the highly innovative and technologically intense context.