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Browsing Masters Degrees (Information Science) by Title

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Achieving best practice through knowledge management : benchmarking and competitive intelligence as techniques for strategic decision-making in small and medium sized enterprises

Wagner, Roland (2008-03)

SMMEs provide opportunities for employment and economic growth for South Africa. SMMEs need to be as prepared as their larger counterparts in the ever-changing local and global business environment. In order to become ...
Agile software development as a response to complexity

Pringle-Wood, Wayne Austen (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organisations are faced with ever increasing complexity. While there are many responses to complexity just as there are many definitions of complexity this thesis highlights the use of agile software ...
Agile software development as managed sensemaking

Ehlers, Kobus (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The environment in which all organisations currently operate is undoubtably dynamic. Regardless of the nature, size or geographical location of business, companies are being forced to cope with a rapidly ...
The alignment of customer relationship management (CRM) strategies with overall organizational forces and strategies

Berhane Ogbamichael, Hermon (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems are increasingly becoming strategic business imperatives to organizations. This thesis states that many companies do fail to get the intended returns from ...
Analysing strategic decision-making in an environment with high rates of change : a model for leaders of organisations

Weilert, Heinz Maria (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2011-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The thesis deals with the context, content (being concepts) and process of model development. They are combined to propose a model for analysing strategic decision-making in an environment characterised ...
The application of sense-making theory to advertising : an exploratory case study

Watson, James Alexander (2003-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of the study was to investigate the controlled transfer of meaning that could be facilitated by the application of knowledge of sense-making theory. An object of communication, an advertisement, ...
Barriers to e-learning amongst postgraduate black students in higher education in South Africa

Takalani, Tshisikhawe (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-03)

Computer literacy plays a major role in today’s education system. The South African Department of Education has included computer literacy to be one of the subjects from primary school education. The purpose of this study ...
Bekende gebeurtenisse as oorredingsmeganismes in advertensietekste

Evenhuis, Nanette (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2005-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Olympic games as world known sports event has been used in many advertisements by companies to sell their products. Many South Africans are motivated through effective marketing to buy a certain ...
Belief-driven sensemaking : arguing as knowledge creation

Smit, Marietjie (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Organizational Knowledge Creation is a core activity of Knowledge Intensive Organizations. In the area of Knowledge Management, a number of theories have been developed about organizational knowledge and ...
Between networks and communities : challenge for an optimal innovation structure

Koen, Lourens (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2012-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The world economy has over the last few decades rapidly moved from an industrial economy to a knowledge economy, creating a new business reality. Organisations have increasingly realised the importance ...
The biodynamics of knowledge creation : an archaeological, behavioural and neurological account of the creation of human knowledge

Christie, Warren James Alexander (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

This thesis explores phenomena surrounding the creation of knowledge, employing a multidisciplinary approach. To start with a view on the physical location of knowledge is discussed. This helps highlight the problem of ...
Black economic empowerment in South Africa : a perspective from Jürgen Habermas's theory of law and democracy

Hugo, Anneline (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2007-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Socio-economic transformation has been a central point on the agenda of the South African government since 1994. The deeply embedded inequality that is portrayed by socio-economic statistics of the time, ...
Branding a region : the next step for the regional tourism organization of Southern Africa

Manasoe, Benjamin (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Marketing practitioners and academics are increasingly applying the concepts and techniques of products or services branding to the branding of destinations. To date, most of these studies focussed on ...
Business counterintelligence : sustainable practice or passing fad?

Shear, Christopher James (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009-03)

Traditional information protection mechanisms are no longer adequately placed to effectively deal with the adversarial threats that have arisen as a result of the rise in importance of knowledge for today’s organisations. ...
Business process integrity and enterprise resource planning systems : an analysis of workaround practices in a large public sector organisation

Edwards, Craig Alan (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Information Technology (IT) artefacts, such as Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERPs), promise much with regard to meeting the requirements of organisations. In the knowledge economy, organisations ...
The challenge of implementing health information systems : a case study in Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital

Serobatse, Moilwa Denton (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the complexities involved in Health Information Systems. The focus is on the factors of a) efficiency and b) usability. A case study is made of a recently implemented system in ...
Change in the South African education and vocational training with reference to the college sector

Boonzaaier, Johannes Nicolaas (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003-03)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Education and vocational training in South Africa are currently in the throes of various changes, especially with regard to the college sector. The process commenced after 1994's historic first democratic ...
Collaboration in the rural schools of the Eden/Karoo District and the use of knowledge management tools

Webber, Zwelibanzi Samson (Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2008-03)

Rural multi-grade schools are faced with many challenges when it comes to teaching and learning. Educators at these schools are required to teach more than one grade at a time with several learning areas. This research ...
Community development through external aid in rural South Africa : Welverdiend Village : a case study

George, Varkey (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000-12)

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis investigates the reasons for failure of community development programmes in rural South Africa. It traces the origin of community development from the end of the Second World War up to the ...
A comparative analysis of leadership and management at Jwaneng Diamond Mine

Mabhudhu, Mark (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2008-12)

The functions of management and leadership are not new to the business fraternity. Whilst these functions are as pervasive and ubiquitous as the corporate organizations themselves, the same cannot be said of the ...