CONCEPT FOR MEASURING ORGANIZATIONAL MATURITY SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

Background: The following paper was developed to assess maturity levels in regards to sustainable development goals. Highly unstable business environment and opportunities occurring on the market require effective and quick decision making process. It is a challenge to follow such dynamic changes within and outside organization while maintaining sustainable goals. However authors state that this is possible thanks to modern concepts and available tools – Industry 4.0 concept or Business Intelligence to name only few. Those concept support making business decisions based on well gathered, analyzed data and setting sufficient strategy which promotes sustainable goals and allows organization to mature.

Methods: Authors based their own maturity model on identified in literature maturity models and international standard: PN-EN ISO 9004:2000.

Results: Authors have defined five maturity levels, each described with several features. On the basis of prepared tables one can define maturity level of organization. Additionally, further steps of development can be indicated and enforced in organizational strategy.

Conclusions: Application of sustainable development within organizational maturity can mitigate reaching sustainable targets.  It is important to understand relations between maturity level of organization and sustainable development goals. By improving its maturity, organization should in parallel develop further sustainable measures.