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A case study on how employees use social media in a consulting work environment
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Organisations are currently performing in a highly competitive environment and are increasingly interested in adopting advance technologies for their business operations. The importance and use of social ... -
Knowledge management strategy formulation at local government level : the case of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Knowledge has become increasingly important for a sustainable local government in South Africa. As a result, many municipalities turned to knowledge management to increase the efficiency and quality of ... -
Towards a critical review of cybersecurity risks in anti-poaching systems in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Anti-poaching operations increasingly make use of a wide variety of technology for intelligence and communications. These technologies introduce risk, and they need to be secured to provide greater protection ... -
Agile software development practices in remote working contexts : a systematic literature review
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY: Agile software development in today’s organisations has become increasingly remote-oriented. The accelerated adoption of global software development and enterprise social media in remote working contexts ... -
In tune : leadership coaching and Hartmut Rosa’s theory of resonance
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: A range of challenges associated with social and organisational acceleration confront organisational leaders. The ever-increasing pace of life drives growth and innovation, but also causes social dislocation ... -
Problematizing the South African cybersecurity policy landscape
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study focused on the challenges experienced in South Africa’s cybersecurity landscape, based on a constructivist paradigm, phenomenological research and qualitative research approach. A total of ten ... -
A comparative study of the e-Government Services of South Africa, Brazil, and Estonia
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis compares the e-government services of South Africa to two benchmark countries, namely Estonia, a world-leader in e-government, and Brazil, a developing country peer of South Africa. The focus ... -
Digital risk management : investigating human-factor security with a behaviourist approach
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The successful digitisation of modern organisations relies on the cohesion between information technology and the workforce responsible for managing and operating it. Without proper management and operation, ... -
Visual exploration of large geolocation-rich data sets using formal concept analysis
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: The rate at which data is being generated is ever-increasing, resulting in an abundance of very large data sets of di erent structures, all requiring improved methods of data capture, processing and storage. ... -
Cross-domain online vigilance and boundary management effects on stress among knowledge workers
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: and social networking has become increasingly common for many. Notably, this connectivity also often spans across different life domains as the boundary between work and personal life becomes increasingly ... -
Public sector reform and complex adaptive systems : an analysis of the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation model
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2022-04)ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study examines a case-study in the practice of international development assistance that deviated from the traditional mechanistic approach to project management. The case-study, based in Liberia, ... -
The value of learning from failure in products and services : a case study of a South African bank
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The thesis presents a case study of lessons learned from failed products and services in a South African bank. The inspiration for the case study comes from social psychological research by the Institute ... -
Automated knowledge discovery or integration : a systematic review of data mining in knowledge management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Data mining and knowledge management activities have been crucial for making sense of the vast amounts of data, information, and knowledge created in organisations. Data mining comprises the collection, ... -
Navigating the Fourth Industrial Revolution : identifying emerging skills for the world of work
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : The impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the world of work is all-encompassing. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is defined by its speed, scale and systems impact. It is critically important to ... -
Process-oriented knowledge management : a conceptual analysis of the relationship between knowledge management and business process management
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Business process orientation in knowledge management is an important topic for organizations today. The trend in knowledge management is to move towards process and human focused approaches. The thesis ... -
Modelling knowledge security : knowledge security as a knowledge management problem
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-12)ENGLISH SUMMARY : For today’s organisations, knowledge has become a highly valuable resource, one that is often critical for competitive success. As such, a variety of methods and approaches have surfaced in recent decades, ... -
Computing research in South Africa : a scientometric investigation
(South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2019)Limited attention has been afforded to mapping the ‘landscape’ of South African computing research. Prior studies have considered singular sub-disciplines, publications, or publication types. Given the growing prominence ... -
Critical thinking skills in tertiary education in Botswana
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2021. -
Repairing classical ontologies using defeasible reasoning techniques
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH SUMMARY : Ontologies provide knowledge engineers with the ability to represent and encode knowledge in a formal language so that it can be reasoned over by a computer. Notable benets include the ability to source ... -
Formal concept analysis applied to pattern matching and automata
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2021-03)ENGLISH ASBSTRACT: This thesis explores the use of formal concept analysis (FCA) to solve pattern matching problems conventionally solved by techniques based on finite au-tomata (FAs). The problems examined in some detail ...
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