Five Ways Your Framework Indicates Process Management Maturity

In March 2025, APQC conducted its biannual survey on how organizations are adopting and using process frameworks and categorized the results according to level of process management (PM) maturity. The research revealed useful insight into how organizations evolve their application of frameworks as they advance in their process management journey. 

This article explores those correlations, describes what your organization’s use of process frameworks might indicate about its level of PM maturity, and explains why increasing its maturity level will enable your organization to use tools like process frameworks to their full advantage.