ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa is ranked as one of the largest table grape exporting countries in the world.
The biggest markets for table grape exports have always been the EU and the UK, with
emerging markets in Eastern ...
Roelofse, Johannes Jacobus (Hanno)(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Food security is a national priority, according to Section 27 of the South African Constitution. It states: “Every citizen has the right to have access to sufficient food and water, and that the state ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organizations formally define and document their business processes in order to properly
understand them and to subsequently enable their continuous development, improvement and
management. In order to ...
Van Dyk, Liezl(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A telemedicine service is a healthcare service (-medicine) that is delivered over
a distance (tele-). The interest in the potential of telemedicine to increase the
quality, accessibility, utilization, ...
Swanepoel, Leon D.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Performance management systems are integral to many organisations. On all levels of management such performance measurements are used to drive a desired behaviour and business units, departments, as well ...
Snyders, Frans Johannes(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa’s health sector has not yet shown enough improvement to reach the Millennium Development Goals related to health. One of the problem areas is the low infant and child vaccination coverage in ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: South Africa has a great number of patients and not enough medical expertise to attend to their patient needs. The South African Department of Health (DoH) has recognised the potential benefit of the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Innovation is widely considered a key prerequisite for achieving organisational
competitiveness and sustained long-term wealth in our increasingly volatile business
environment. It is therefore ...
Von Petersdorff, Hagen Alexander(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Asset Management initiatives suffer many barriers in implementation which
hinder their influence and sustainability. One of these barriers is the lack of
buy-in from all levels in the organisation, due ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It has been postulated that lean thinking principles can be successfully applied to any industry. Following on that postulation, there have been great advances in the area of lean thinking outside the ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The management of physical assets has become a popular eld of
study over recent years and is being acknowledged in multiple disciplines
world wide. In this project, research on Physical Asset ...
Read, Sebastian E. A.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There is a need for a coarse-to-fine positioning system as per a case study
presented by the project collaboration partner, the Technical University of
Chemnitz. The case study involves the picking and ...
Eksteen, Pieter De Waal(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Osteoarthritis (OA), also known as degenerative joint disease is a progressive disorder of the joints caused by gradual loss of cartilage and resulting in the development of bony spurs and cysts at the ...
De Beer, Thys(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to address the need for sustainable development within
waste management. It explores how sustainability can be assessed and used as
the basis for high level decision making ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Clustering has emerged as one of the drivers for economic growth and improved competitiveness for specific industries. In order for cluster initiatives to be successful, they need to be managed in a certain ...
Van Heerden, Johan P.(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Project management (PM) is a very important field in engineering as a whole. The management of most projects has become more complex in recent times, due to greater technical complexity and the requirement ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aerospace- and automotive industries have an urgency to save space and reduce weight, as well as a need to
increase fuel efficiency and reduce emissions. This has led to the use of lightweight ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Predictive analytics in healthcare has become one of the major focus areas in healthcare delivery worldwide. Due to the massive amount of healthcare data being captured, healthcare providers and health ...
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study explores the implementation of an integrated capital budgeting
visual mapping framework comprised of both Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
and Real Options Analysis (ROA) techniques. Physical asset ...
Van Niekerk, Mariette(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Construction projects are risky by nature, with many variables a ecting their outcome.
A contingency cost and duration are allocated to the budget and schedule
of a project to provide for the possible ...