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In many organisations a gap exists between IT management and emergency managemement. This paper illustrates how process improvement based on a maturity model can be used to help organisations to evaluate and improve the way they include IT dependability information in their emergency management. This paper presents the IDEM3 (IT Dependability in Emergency Management Maturity Model) process improvement framework which focuses especially on the cooperation between IT personnel, emergency managers, and users, to proactively prevent IT dependability problems when the IT systems are most critical in emergency situations. This paper describes the details of the framework, how the framework was developed and its relation to other maturity models in related fields.
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Weyns, K., Höst, M., Helgesson, Y.L. (2010). A Maturity Model for IT Dependability in Emergency Management. In: Ali Babar, M., Vierimaa, M., Oivo, M. (eds) Product-Focused Software Process Improvement. PROFES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13792-1_20
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