BPM maturity and performance: The influence of knowledge on BPM

In order to continuously improve performance, organizations need to control their processes. To do this it is assumed that organizations need a high level of business process management maturity and employees need a high level of knowledge and experience in BPM. Proof of this assumption has not been found in the literature. Therefore, the objective of this study is to determine what the influence is, of knowledge and experience of BPM, on the dependence between BPM maturity and process performance. For this study a dataset of 469 respondents from Dutch organizations was collected over the period of 2010 till 2015. Analyses of the data shows that the scores of BPM Maturity and Process performance by respondents with extensive BPM knowledge and experience are significantly higher than by respondents with limited BPM knowledge and experience. However further analyses show that BPM knowledge and experience has no influence on the strength of the relation between BPM Maturity and Process Performance. Therefore, we can conclude that BPM knowledge has no intervening effect on the relationship between BPM Maturity and Process performance. Additionally, we found that the following dimensions of BPM maturity: Process Resources, Process Tools, Process Awareness, Process Improvement and Process Measurement are the main predictors of Process performance