Grants explicit freedom to select the order of improvement that best meets the organization’s business objectives and mitigates the organization’s areas of risk

Enables organizations to have a predefined and proven improvement path

Enables increased visibility of the capability achieved in each individual process area

Focuses on a set of processes that provide an organization with a specific capability that is characterized by each maturity level

Allows improvements of different processes to be performed at different rates

Summarizes process improvement results in a simple form—a single maturity level number

Reflects a newer approach that does not yet have the data to demonstrate its ties to return on investment

Builds on a relatively long history of use that includes case studies and data that demonstrate return on investment