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The dangers of positional smugplacency : is a wave of destructive incompetence gathering momentum in the South African workplace?

Leonard, Basil C. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch Business School, 2007-08)
Decentralisation for community development - a Rwanda Case study

Mutagoma, Paul (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2006-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A community-centred development which can be qualified as authentic development leads to the sustainability of the community. This must be understood as a process of economic, political and social change ...
A decision analysis model to optimise the feed strategy of a coal preparation plant

Howard, Trevor (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

The objective of this study is to recommend the optimal coal preparation plant feed strategy for the Tweefontein Optimisation Project (TOP) at Xstrata Coal South Africa’s Tweefontein Complex operations. In this research ...
Decision support for generator maintenance scheduling in the energy sector

Schlunz, Evert Barend (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As the world-wide consumption of electricity continually increases, more and more pressure is put on the capabilities of power generating systems to maintain their levels of power provision. The electricity ...
Decision support for threat detection in maritime surveillance

Du Toit, Jacques (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The policing and monitoring of South Africa's coastline and economic exclusion zone is made di cult not only by the size of the area of interest, but also by the limited resources available for maritime ...
A decision support system for scheduling the harvesting and wine making processes at a winery

Van der Merwe, Adri (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Technological advances made over the past century have had a major impact on traditional wineries. Software solutions for management issues are widely available and give rise to the prospect of computerized ...
A decision support system to optimise the available resources at Kimberley Mines

Du Toit, Jeremias Cornelius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Diamond mining started in Kimberley in the early 1870s following the discovery of the various diamond bearing kimberlite pipes. Initial open pit mining was replaced by underground mining as the pits went ...
Decision support with respect to facility location and fleet composition for FoodBank Cape Town

Lanz, Ernest John (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: FoodBank South Africa is an non-profit organisation formed to establish a national network of community foodbanks in urban and rural areas of South Africa, with all participants working towards the ...
Decision-making factors of German tourists travelling to South Africa

Faulhaber, Felix (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of this report is to provide detailed insights into the marketing of services, specifically in the airline and travel agency industries. Therefore, the report firstly presents the existing ...
Decoupling : natural resource use and environmental impacts from economic growth

Fischer-Kowalski, Marina Swilling, M. (United Nations Environment Programme, 2011-05)

"By 2050, humanity could devour an estimated 140 billion tons of minerals, ores, fossil fuels and biomass per year – three times its current appetite – unless the economic growth rate is “decoupled” from the rate of natural ...
Decoupling infrastructure services from unsustainable resource use : cases from Cape Town

Robinson, Blake (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

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The deductibility of indirect empowerment measures relating to black economic empowerment (BEE) in terms of the income tax act

Acker, Tim (2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The requirements of broad-based black economic empowerment (‘BEE’) are set out in the BEE scorecard. When an entity incurs expenditure relating to indirect empowerment measures (i.e. the preferential ...
Defining a retention strategy for pharmacists in the public sector in Kwa-Zulu Natal

Naicker, H. (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

There is a global scarcity of health care workers (Boseley, 2011: 1). There has been global competition for the scarce resource, with developing countries competing for their own health care workers (Padarath et al., 2004: ...
Defining and mapping risk management

Van der Walt, Viljoen (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2007-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Risk management is a widely used term meaning different things to people in different economic sectors. To some, it refers to auditing and, to others, it means Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), ...
Defining and reducing the IT gap by means of comprehensive alignment

Smit, Sybil Butler, Rika (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)
Defining key success criteria to measure project success for Warehouse management system implementations

Genade, Marius (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

The storage and distribution of goods in warehouses have been around for centuries. Information systems and technology have enabled business to run various different functions, like accounting, successfully. Companies soon ...
A definition of project portfolio management based on a multiple perspective analysis

Malherbe, Daniel Marthinus Van Zyl (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2011-12)

Organisations are continuously involved in the process of selection, prioritisation and execution of projects in order to achieve some stated objective, within the constraints of a finite set of resources. The problem ...
Delft SAPS as an instrument for community development

Booysen, Freddie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study was undertaken to determine whether a lack of effective service delivery at the South African Police Service at Delft was due to a lack of community participation and development in Delft. Data ...
A deliverable sales strategy for Mercedes-Benz Claremont

Van Zyl, Jaco (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The economic downturn in South Africa since mid 2008 has transformed the motor vehicle industry into a seriously competitive marketplace. Both large and small dealerships are finding their volumes and ...
Delivering peak performance through focused career management

Hako, Vuyani Wellington (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Wealth today cannot be merely measured by material acquisition but also by depth of knowledge, wisdom and understanding. This knowledge, wisdom and understanding lie in the human capital of the ...