For instance, three organizations that are at initial maturity levels are using the BRSM as a guide to carry out measurements, and another is using the RSMO as a reference model for building their measurement repository.
First, the use of the strategy as a whole demands time, since it has to be used by organizations that are starting to implement high maturity levels practices or organizations that are at initial maturity levels but intend to achieve high maturity in a next future.
In fact, most of the organizations involved in software process improvement programs are in more initial maturity levels.
This is not the case for measures used at initial maturity levels, where their intended use is to support traditional project monitoring and control.
In the first one, there are organizations that have achieved the initial maturity levels and wish to use the measures and data collected along those levels in SPC.
Although BRSM has recommendations that must be used aiming at SPC implementation, there are recommendations that deal with measurement at initial maturity levels.
Since implementing sustainability is characterized by continuous development, we adapted the basic idea of stages of development and maturity to sustainability context, in order to provide a possibility to describe the respective sequence of levels that form an anticipated path from an initial state to maturity.
Based on the assumption of predictable patterns of organizational evolution and change, maturity models typically represent theories about how an organization's capabilities evolve in a stage-by-stage manner along an anticipated, desired, or logical path from an initial state to maturity (van den Ven and Poole 1995; Kazanjian and Drazin 1989).
Even though this case allows for an initial instantiation of the Sustainability Maturity Cube, the findings are not aimed at making generalizations.
Although investigation of cell lines may differ in some responses from naturally occurring primary cells the use of cell lines represents a suitable model to study determined characteristics in a specific stage of osteoblast maturity as an initial observation.
Heres one: In late December the Federal Home Loan Bank issued a bond with final maturity in January 2003 and an initial interest rate of 6%.
