Browsing by Author "Van der Merwe, Alta"

Browsing by Author "Van der Merwe, Alta"

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  • An agile and ontology-aided modeling environment 
    Laurenzi, Emanuele; Hinkelmann, Knut; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2018-10)
    Enterprise knowledge is currently subject to ever-changing, complex and domain-specific modeling requirements. Assimilating these requirements in modeling languages brings the benefits associated to both domain-specific ...
  • An analysis of fundamental concepts in the conceptual framework using ontology technologies 
    Gerber, Marthinus Cornelius; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Department of Economics, University of Pretoria, 2014)
    The interpretation of financial data obtained from the accounting process for reporting purposes is regulated by financial accounting standards (FAS). The history and mechanisms used for the development of ʻThe Conceptual ...
  • Best practice guidance for creation and management of innovations in health care and information and communications technologies 
    Halfmann, Sebastian Schee Genannt; Evangelatos, Nikolaos; Kweyu, Emmanuel; Van der Merwe, Alta; Steinhausen, Kirsten; Brand, Angela (Mary Ann Liebert, 2022-02)
    Governments and publics in Europe and around the world have turned to innovation in response to the manifold economic, environmental, and societal challenges we are facing. However, innovations often end up in what is ...
  • Big data driven decision making model: a case of the South African banking sector 
    Pillay, Komla; Van der Merwe, Alta (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2021-12-19)
    The quest to develop a Big Data Driven Decision Making framework to support the incorporation of big data analytics into the decision-making process resulted in the development of a decision making model. The study was ...
  • Building empathy for design thinking in e-Health : a Zimbabwean case study 
    Marufu, M.A. (Masiya); Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2019)
    The challenges of healthcare delivery in Africa are well documented. Advances in technology present an opportunity to address some of these challenges in a cost-effective manner. Notwithstanding these advances, many ...
  • Components of a digital transformation strategy : a South African perspective 
    Mapingire, Kudzai; Smuts, Hanlie; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2022)
    Most organisations have begun to take the phenomenon of digital transformation very seriously and in response, they have adopted a digital transformation strategy (DTS) to guide them on the journey to being digitally ...
  • The creation and management of innovations in healthcare and ICT – the European and African experience 
    Schee genannt Halfmann, Sebastian; Evangelatos, Nikolaos; Kweyu, Emmanuel; De Villiers, Carina; Steinhausen, Kirsten; Van der Merwe, Alta; Brand, Angela (Karger, 2019-08)
    The purpose of the study was to gain new insights into innovation systems by comparing state-of-the-art of existing approaches of innovation creation and innovation management in healthcare and ICT. It is unique, in that ...
  • “Designing” design science research – a taxonomy for supporting study design decisions 
    Smuts, Hanlie; Winter, Robert; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2022-05)
    The Design Science Research (DSR) paradigm is highly relevant to the Information Systems (IS) discipline because DSR aims to improve the state of practice and contribute design knowledge through the systematic construction ...
  • Enterprise architecture as explanatory information systems theory for understanding small- and medium-sized enterprise growth 
    Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Le Roux, Pierre; Van der Merwe, Alta (MDPI, 2020-10-15)
    Understanding and explaining small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth is important for sustainability from multiple perspectives. Research indicates that SMEs comprise more than 80% of most economies, and their ...
  • Exploring the future of enterprise architecture : a Zachman perspective 
    Lapalme, James; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta; Zachman, John; De Vries, Marne; Hinkelmann, Knut (Elsevier, 2016-06)
    Today, and for the foreseeable future, organizations will face ever-increasing levels of complexity and uncertainty. Many believe that enterprise architecture (EA) will help organizations address such difficult terrain ...
  • A framework for Industrial Internet of Things 
    Jansen, Jacques; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2020-04)
    The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a new concept that has the potential to add value to any industrial organisation that wants to embark on the implementation thereof. Due to this newness of IoT in industrial ...
  • Guidelines for conducting design science research in information systems 
    Van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Smuts, Hanlie (Springer, 2020)
    Information Systems (IS) as a discipline is still young and is continuously involved in building its own research knowledge base. Design Science Research (DSR) in IS is a research strategy for design that has emerged in ...
  • An information systems ownership framework 
    Swanepoel, Adri; Van der Merwe, Alta; Van Loggerenberg, J.J. (Johannes Josephus) (Inderscience, 2020)
    Organisations deploy information systems (IS) with the exclusive intention to pursue their business objectives. Executive managers assign ownership of IS to business leaders, expecting them to leverage the IS towards ...
  • An investigation into OWL for concrete syntax specification using UML notations 
    Thomas, Anitta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2016-07)
    The Web Ontology Language OWL is a prominent ontology language for specifying ontologies. Although OWL ontologies are well-used for representing and reasoning about knowledge in various domains, they are sparsely studied ...
  • An IT strategic decision-making framework in the midst of disruptive technologies 
    Padayachee, Rajan; Van der Merwe, Alta; Matthee, Machdel C. (South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 2022-07-22)
    Technological disruption enabled by the internet revolution has resulted in an exponential increase in the growth of new technologies and the resultant technology disruptions in the workplace. Disruptive technologies are ...
  • Knowledge management in Society 5.0 : a sustainability perspective 
    Smuts, Hanlie; Van der Merwe, Alta (MDPI, 2022-06-04)
    Organizations require the means to navigate Society 5.0. This is a knowledge-intensive society where a sustainable balance must be created for social good through a system that integrates cyberspace and physical space. ...
  • Mapping a design science research cycle to the postgraduate research report 
    Van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Smuts, Hanlie (Springer, 2017-11)
    Design science research (DSR) is well-known in different domains, including information systems (IS), for the construction of artefacts. One of the most challenging aspects of IS postgraduate studies (with DSR) is determining ...
  • A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT : combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology 
    Hinkelmann, Knut; Karagiannis, Dimitris; Thoenssen, Barbara; Woitsch, Robert; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Elsevier, 2016-06)
    The paper deals with Next Generation Enterprise Information Systems in the context of Enterprise Engineering. The continuous alignment of business and IT in a rapidly changing environment is a grand challenge for today’s ...
  • Ontology-based spatial pattern recognition in diagrams 
    Thomas, Anitta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2018-05)
    Diagrams are widely used in our day to day communication. A knowledge of the spatial patterns used in diagrams is essential to read and understand them. In the context of diagrams, spatial patterns mean accepted spatial ...
  • Requirements engineering for model-based enterprise architecture management with ArchiMate 
    Bork, Dominik; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Miron, Elena-Teodora; Van Deventer, Jacobus Philippus; Van der Merwe, Alta; Karagiannis, Dimitris; Eybers, Sunet; Sumereder, Anna (Springer, 2018)
    The role of information systems (IS) evolved from supporting basic business functions to complex integrated enterprise platforms and ecosystems. As a result, enterprises increasingly adopt enterprise architecture (EA) as ...