Abstract
The Delphi method, which was chosen to be the “vehicle” of this work, is used for deriving experts’ opinion on a topic and generating forecasts in technology, education, and other areas. Its objective is fulfilled by reaching a consensus by a selected group of experts whose opinion on an issue is gathered via a series of consecutive questionnaires. In particular, a Delphi-variant technique has been chosen to be the most appropriate methodology for this work because of the availability of a pool of local SOA experts that contributed toward the development of a new SOA MM and the innovativeness and potential provided by Delphi itself.
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Antoniades, P. (2014). Research Approach and Methods. In: SOA Maturity Model. SpringerBriefs in Information Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02453-0_4
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