Browsing Informatics by Author "Van der Merwe, Alta"

Browsing Informatics 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • A social representations analysis of design science research 
    Naidoo, Rennie; Van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Hevner, Alan (Computer Society of South Africa, 2015-07)
    Compared to positivist survey and interpretive case study research, design science research (DSR) is a relatively novel and unfamiliar research paradigm within the computing eld in South Africa. In light of recent interest ...
  • Systematic literature review of essential enterprise architecture management dimensions 
    Trishan, Marimuthu; Van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba (Springer, 2022)
    Many organisations turn to enterprise architecture (EA) to assist with the alignment of business and information technology. While some of these organisations succeed in the development and implementation of EA, many of ...
  • A theoretical framework for IT-enabled and IT-enforced corporate governance compliance utilizing BPMSs 
    Pretorius, Hendrik Willem; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2020-04)
    Corporate governance has been severely condemned, as a result of company failures around the world. Regulatory and legislative measure have been introduced in response to these failures. However, arguments by sceptics ...
  • Towards an agile and ontology-aided modeling environment for DSML adaptation 
    Laurenzi, Emanuele; Hinkelmann, Knut; Izzo, Stefano; Reimer, Ulrich; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2018)
    The advent of digitalization exposes enterprises to an ongoing transformation with the challenge to quickly capture relevant aspects of changes. This brings the demand to create or adapt domain-specific modeling languages ...
  • Towards citizen-expert knowledge exchange for biodiversity informatics : a conceptual architecture 
    Kiptoo, Caroline Chepkoech; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Van der Merwe, Alta (Wits LINK Centre, 2016)
    This article proposes a conceptual architecture for citizen-expert knowledge exchange in biodiversity management. Expert services, such as taxonomic identification, are required in many biodiversity management activities, ...
  • Towards different enterprise architecture project types 
    Klopper, Aletta; Matthee, Machdel C.; Van der Merwe, Alta (Springer, 2020-12)
    This research is in the enterprise architecture (EA) research field. EA is a developing discipline that in broad terms emphasizes all aspects of organizational design and development, including enabling information technology. ...
  • Understanding enterprise architects : different enterprise architect behavioral styles 
    Du Preez, Jaco; Van der Merwe, Alta; Matthee, Machdel C. (Springer, 2018)
    Enterprise Architecture (EA) is an emerging field that focuses on the establishment of a conceptual blueprint that describes the structure and operation of an organization. The purpose is to enable the organization to ...