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Measuring What IMF Manages: A Design-Science Protocol for an Indicator Set and Maturity Model for CreatiCampus Projects

Nyree Ani, Archa Erica, Brigitta Callula

· CreatiCampus Working Paper Series · Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2026)

Abstract

Indicator Measurement Factor Analysis (IMF) is a spreadsheet-based method for running projects that has been used at an Indonesian private university since 2019. Its founding texts claim that it monitors achievement and improves teamwork, but they report no measurement instrument, and the achievement percentage computed in practice is defined in more than one way. This paper reframes IMF as a measurement instrument for creative-campus projects and sets out, following design science research, the design of that instrument and the protocol for validating it. We first review how IMF has been described and measured in its founding blog post and conference paper, in the literature that cites the paper and in the formulas of live IMF spreadsheets. We then propose a new measurement definition of IMF and design two artefacts: the IMF Indicator Set, with twenty indicators in six domains (achievement, timeliness, evidence integrity, ownership and collaboration, teamwork, and continuity), each with a formula, data source and direction; and the IMF Maturity Model, which places a project unit on five levels across six dimensions, from ad hoc task lists to portfolio-level optimisation. An illustrative computation on an invented mission demonstrates how the indicators are calculated. Validation is planned in three phases: a modified Delphi study with a multidisciplinary expert panel, content-validity indexing at item and scale level together with model-level evaluation of the maturity model and cognitive interviews on the teamwork items, and a pilot with creative-campus missions to examine reliability, feasibility, sensitivity and known-groups validity. No empirical results are reported; every result is marked as to be reported, and decision criteria are fixed in advance.

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Cite as: Nyree Ani; Archa Erica; Brigitta Callula (2026). Measuring What IMF Manages: A Design-Science Protocol for an Indicator Set and Maturity Model for CreatiCampus Projects. CreatiCampus Working Paper Series, Vol. 1, Issue 1. Esquine CreatiResearch Institute. https://creaticampus.esquine.com/papers/measuring-what-imf-manages-indicator-set-maturity-model-creative-campus/

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