Towards an Infostructure Maturity Model for Disaster Management

Maturity models has been accepted as a widely accepted tool in guiding the development of improvement program to transform an organization to a better state. Due to the ad-hoc and dynamic state of disaster management, activities conducted in dealing with disaster need to be assessed so it meets the objectives. This paper highlights a preliminary investigation of a suitable assessment tool, aimed at the development of an infostructure maturity model for the domain of disaster management. The development of this model is justified to the extent that there is no existing maturity model to assess infostructure, which is a new term developed specifically for disaster management. The research also aims to serve as a preliminary work in developing a tool to determine the maturity of the activities involved in disaster management, specifically for electricity company.