For this project, select an organization that has leveraged CMM for  process improvement in an attempt to improve profitability or to give  them a competitive advantage.  Research the organization to understand  the challenges that they faced and how they intended to use CMM to  overcome their challenges.  The paper should include the following  sections each called out with a header.

    •    Company Overview:   The section should include the company name, the industry they are in  and a general overview of the organization.

    •    Challenges:  Discuss the challenges the organization had that limited their  profitability and/or competitiveness and how they planned to leverage  CMM to overcome their challenges.

    •    Solution:  Describe the  organization’s CMM implementation and the benefits they realized from  the implementation.  What was the result of implementing CMM?  Did they  meet their objectives for fall short?

    •    Conclusion:  Summarize  the most important ideas from the paper and also make recommendations  or how they might have achieved even greater success.

 
The paper  must adhere to APA guidelines including Title and Reference pages.   There should be at least three scholarly sources listed on the reference  page.  Each source should be cited in the body of the paper to give  credit where due.  Per APA, the paper should use a 12-point Time New  Roman font, should be double spaced throughout, and the first sentence  of each paragraph should be indented .5 inches.  The body of the paper  should be 4 – 5 pages in length.  The Title and Reference pages do not  count towards the page count requirements.