To build on the success and momentum of the 2008 Baseline/BTM 500, and create an even more granular research output, this year's survey will offer participants the opportunity to complete from one to four of the targeted surveys utilizing an online BTM Assessment Tool. In order to understand what successful companies do differently in terms of their management behaviors, organizations will be evaluated against a set of essential management capabilities for effective business technology convergence according to the BTM Framework^TM.

These capabilities and respective surveys are grouped in four functional areas: Governance & Organization, Strategy & Planning, Strategic Investment Management, and Strategic Enterprise Architecture. Each represents a specific management competency defined by four critical dimensions ordered by repeatable processes, executed through appropriate organizational structures, and enabled by the right information and technology. Maturity results will be available online immediately following the submission of final responses.

BTM research shows that at Level 1, enterprises typically execute some strategic capabilities in a disaggregated, task-like manner. At Level 2, an organization exhibits limited capabilities, attempts to assemble information for major decisions and consults the technology function on decisions with obvious business-technology implications. Enterprises at Level 3 are "functional" with respect to the capabilities, and those at Level 4 have the capabilities fully implemented. Organizations achieving Level 5 maturity are good enough to know when to change the rules to maintain a strategic advantage over competitors.

To read more about the functional areas, click here:

BTM Framework - Overview of Functional Areas