Assessing Process Maturity of an Underground Mine: a Case Study

Abstract

Business process management is now the most dynamically developing concept in organisation management. In order to further improve process efficiency, it is advisable to analyse the current situation and determine the position of the organisation in terms of its progress in implementing the process approach. This is where the evaluation of the organisation’s process maturity proves useful. And the available literature provides an array of models for such assessment. This paper presents the results of a process maturity study for a selected hard coal mine based on the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) framework. The mine was ranked level 3 in process maturity, which is on a par with other Polish businesses. This score suggests opportunities for further improvement towards a more process-oriented business approach.