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Challenges in ascertaining ICT skills requirements in South Africa

Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.); Matthee, Machdel C.; Alexander, Patricia M. (Computer Society of South Africa, 2010-12)

World wide, a number of far-reaching decisions regarding ways to address the ICT skills shortage are made by both the public and private sectors. These are based on information obtained from various sources and in various ...
Cognitive mapping : a process to support strategic planning in an academic department

Johnson, Roy D.; Lipp, Astrid (Springer, 2007)

Cognitive mapping has been used to support strategic planning in business. However, the process has seldom been utilized to support strategic planning in nonprofit public organizations, where many reporting lines are less ...
Combining perceptions and prescriptions in requirements engineering process assessment : an industrial case study

Napier, Nannette P.; Mathiassen, Lars; Johnson, Roy D. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009-10)

Requirements engineering (RE) is a key discipline in software development and several methods are available to help assess and improve RE processes. However, these methods rely on prescriptive models of RE; they do not, ...
A comparative study of sample selection methods for classification

Lutu, Patricia E.N.; Engelbrecht, Andries P. (Computer Society of South Africa, 2006-06)

Sampling of large datasets for data mining is important for at least two reasons. The processing of large amounts of data results in increased computational complexity. The cost of this additional complexity may not be ...
A computer-assisted exploration of the semantic role frameworks in Genesis 1:1-2:3

Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, 2007)

This article focuses on the extraction and exploration of semantic role frameworks via a visual basic 6 program from an xml data cube containing linguistic data of the Hebrew text of Genesis 1:1-2:3. The semantic roles in ...
A conceptual framework for managing relationships between all participants during IT service and support activities

Leonard, A.C. (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2002)

Since the early days of computing, IT professionals have been struggling with their end users (customers) to such an extent that end users became sceptic about the quality of service and support IT professionals can ...
Differentiating between data-mining and text-mining terminology

Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Matthee, Machdel C.; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel) (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2004-12)

When a new discipline emerges, it usually takes some time and a great deal of academic discussion before concepts and terms become standardized. Text mining is one such new discipline. In a groundbreaking article, Untangling ...
Ensuring sustainability in a community-based project module

Jordaan, Martina (SUNMeDIA, 2012)

Community engagement is a form of experiential learning aimed at accomplishing tasks that meet genuine human needs in various local communities. It focuses on the execution of tasks that serve as educational and learning ...
Ethical considerations during human centred overt and covert research

Van Deventer, J.P. (Springer, 2009-01)

During the research process, several ethical issues have to be considered in ensuring the safety of the research participants. This is especially true in the case of human centred research designs in which people, not ...
An exploration of Deaf telecommunication processes and associated social issues in South Africa

Liebenberg, Marisa; Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.) (Computer Society of South Africa, 2010-07)

This paper presents the results of an exploratory investigation into telecommunications practices and challenges among the Deaf in South Africa. Telecommunication products like cell phones, TTY’s, sMessage terminals, ...
Exploring formal information technology evaluation practices in African firms

Naidoo, Rennie; Palk, Walter (Academic Journals, 2011-11-23)

Despite its universal appeal, little has been done in the way of empirical research to probe into the role of formal information technology (IT) investment evaluation practices and its influence on IT governance and ...
Factors affecting career choice : comparison between students from computer and other disciplines

Alexander, Patricia M.; Holmner, Marlene; Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.); Matthee, Machdel C.; Pieterse, H.V.; Naidoo, S.; Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Jordaan, D. (Springer Netherlands, 2011-06)

The number of student enrolments in computer-related courses remains a serious concern worldwide with far reaching consequences. This paper reports on an extensive survey about career choice and associated motivational ...
From tags to topic maps : using marked-up Hebrew text to discover linguistic patterns

Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Matthee, Machdel C. (Proceedings of the 2008 International Conference on Information Resources Management, 2008-05-18)

The paper discusses a series of related techniques that prepare and transform raw linguistic data for advanced processing in order to unveil hidden grammatical patterns. It identifies XML as a suitable mark-up language ...
Generalizations from an interpretive study : the case of a South African community-based health information system

Byrne, Elaine; Sahay, Sundeep (Computer Society of South Africa, 2007-06)

This paper explores the making of generalizations from interpretive research by examining the process of developing a community-based information system (IS) in a rural area in South Africa. Lee and Baskerville’s [1] ...
Guidelines for assessing the knowledge management maturity of organizations

Kruger, C.J.; Snyman, M.M.M. (Maria Magdalena Margaretha) (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2007-09)

In a recent article Kruger and Snyman hypothesized that progressions in knowledge management maturity (from a strategic perspective) are directly related to an increased ability to speed up the strategic cycle of imitation, ...
Guidelines for identifying risk vulnerabilities associated with ICT sourcing

Cachia, A.; Kruger, C.J. (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2007-12)

As organizations broaden their organizational boundaries with sourcing practices, it is imperative to identify risk vulnerabilities from a wider perspective than before. Specifically, organizations that make substantial ...
Handling diversity in group work in the information systems class

Thomas, T.; De Villiers, Carina (Computer Society of South Africa, 2000-11)

Tertiary institutions in South Africa are faced with dealing with diversity in all its forms in our classrooms. Information Systems, Information Technology and Computer Science students need to learn to work with people ...
The hof'al in Biblical Hebrew : simple passives, single passives and double passives-and reflexives?

Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch, 2002)

Some hof'al verbs may be semantically related as simple passives to non-causative transitive active qal or hif'il verbs of the same root. If the hif'il is the causative of the qal or nif'al, the hof'al is a causative ...
Implementing open source software to conform to national policy

Weilbach, Lizette; Byrne, Elaine (Emerald, 2011)

PURPOSE – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the implementation process of an open source (OS) enterprise management system in the South African Public Sector. Change management was observed in relation to ...
Information management as an enabler of knowledge management maturity : a South African perspective

Kruger, C.J.; Johnson, Roy D. (Elsevier, 2009)

This paper explores the much ignored but critically important subject of the perceived relationship between information and communications technology (ICT), information management (IM) and knowledge management (KM). Defining ...

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