• The relationship between PMO support functions and project management maturity levels : a case study of a South African petrochemical company 

  Bezuidenhout, A.; Steyn, Herman; Pretorius, Suzaan (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2024-08-30)

  This paper identifies the essential support functions of project management offices (PMO) for various organisational project management maturity (OPMM) levels. A case study of a South African petrochemical company compares ...
• Project management maturity and its impact on perceived project success : a case study 

  Burger, E.; Pretorius, Suzaan; Steyn, Herman (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2024-08-30)

  A notion exists that organisations with higher levels of project management maturity execute projects more effectively and efficiently and so have a higher probability of achieving project success. This paper reports on a ...
• The reshaping of curriculum transformation to address the 21st-century skill sets and employment prospects during the Fourth Industrial Revolution era : a case of the South Africa TVET colleges 

  Kana, Nomso; Letaba, Tshotleho Petrus (Stellenbosch University, 2024)

  This research explores the employability of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college graduates in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) era in South Africa. It examines the role of TVET lecturers in ...
• Temporal characterization of land use change and land-scape processes in informal settlements in the City of Cape Town, South Africa 

  Okoye, Perpetua Ifeoma; Lalk, Jorg (CONSAS Conference, 2024-07)

  This study conducted a Land Use Change (LUC) analysis on informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, using bi-temporal steps, S1 (2010) and S2 (2016), to characterize land use (LU) conversions and landscape processes ...
• Feature guided training and rotational standardization for the morphological classification of radio galaxies 

  Brand, Kevin; Grobler, Trienko L.; Kleynhans, Waldo; Vaccari, Mattia; Prescott, Matthew; Becker, Burger (Oxford University Press, 2023-04)

  State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process ...
• Draw to a close : inventor triad dynamics and invention quality 

  Nan, Ding; Markus, Arjan; Oerlemans, Leon A.G. (Routledge, 2024)

  Instead of comparing open and closed triads as static phenomena, this study examines how closure dynamics among inventors impact the extent to which inventors generate high-quality inventions at the triad level. Combining ...
• Institutionalizing foresight in science, technology, and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa 

  Ouma-Mugabe, John; Botha, Anthon; Letaba, Petrus (Wiley, 2024-06)

  MOTIVATION : Foresight is increasingly being institutionalized and used in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy processes around the world. Foresight is a toolbox to help decision-makers generate intelligence ...
• A framework for developing systems engineering management for process plant acquisition projects 

  Moodley, Denver; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Wiley, 2024)

  South Africa has a history of poor performance on process plant acquisition projects in the process industry that apply chemical processes within large processing facilities to convert raw materials such as crude oil into ...
• Deficiencies in the traditional budgeting process cause the negative behaviour of budgetary slacking 

  Ramlall, Rishen; Grobbelaar, Schalk (AOSIS, 2024-06)

  PURPOSE : This study delves into the inadequacies of the traditional budgeting process and their role in instigating budgetary slacking behaviour within organisations. It aims to unveil the underlying mechanisms behind ...
• Startups’ innovation programmes : a food industry versus university cases 

  Govender, Elisha A.; Van der Lingen, Elma (AOSIS, 2024-07)

  BACKGROUND: Collaborations with external partners such as startups have been shown to bring agile and consumer-centric advantages to businesses to allow for future-proofing benefits as well as improve the rankings of ...
• Application of cognitive work analysis in support of systems engineering of a socio-technical system 

  Van den Heever, Henk; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Inderscience, 2024-01)

  This paper presents a validation workflow to support system requirements analysis. Systems engineering supports the development of socio-technical systems. However, the traditional systems engineering approach of reducing ...
• Value creation in the African cement market : a model and validation 

  Meyer, Johan Andries Muller; Pretorius, Leon (JCMAN, 2023)

  PURPOSE OF THE STUDY : This research sets out to develop a systems-thinking-based conceptual model that can be used by the cement service industry to market its products and services in Africa; to review the literature to ...
• Single versus multiple project teams and individual performance : do they ask for different leadership behaviors? 

  Kenda, Renata; Meslec, Nicoleta; Oerlemans, Leon A.G. (Elsevier, 2024-02)

  Multiple project team membership is a prevalent phenomenon in modern organizational life. However, is any leadership behavior in such a setting beneficial to individual team members' performance? Our study suggests that ...
• Editorial : Opioids in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic : from cellular mechanisms to public health policy 

  John, Scott; Walwyn, David Richard; DeFea, Kathryn; Hales, Tim G.; Walwyn, Wendy (Frontiers Media, 2023-07-14)

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• The supporting role of the project management office in the transfer of knowledge between projects - a study of five cases 

  Tshuma, Brighton; Van Waveren, Cornelis Cristo; Steyn, Herman (Inderscience, 2024)

  Project management offices (PMOs) play both mediating (facilitating) and moderating (supporting) roles in knowledge transfer (KT) between projects. The mediating role of the PMO has been addressed elsewhere while this ...
• A generic technology assessment framework for sustainable energy transitions in African contexts 

  Musango, Josephine Kaviti; Ouma-Mugabe, John (Elsevier, 2024-07)

  How African countries manage transitions to decarbonised, environmentally and socially acceptable energy systems is a topical issue in public policy, politics and academic spheres today. There is recognition that technology ...
• Water use pricing and financing of water infrastructure systems in South Africa 

  Ruiters, Cornelius; Amadi-Echendu, J.E. (Joe) (ICE Publishing, 2023-09)

  Please read abstract in the article.
• Sawmilling competitiveness from the perspective of industry competitiveness models : a review 

  Tshavhungwe, Vhuhwavho; Grobbelaar, Schalk (NISC (Pty) Ltd and Informa UK Limited (trading as Taylor and Francis Group), 2024)

  Globalisation and changes to the world economy have brought new challenges and opportunities for many industries, including the sawmill industry. This has led to a need to evaluate the competitiveness of South Africa’s ...
• MBSE-Lite : a framework for adopting model-based systems engineering in small and medium-sized enterprises in South Africa 

  Nanfuka, J.G.; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2023)

  PURPOSE – This research aims to characterise the landscape and factors for successfully implementing Systems Engineering (SE) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) in the enterprise. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY – The study ...
• Formation of ties through action learning : a case from a multicultural entrepreneurship camp 

  Chan, Kai-Ying; Van der Lingen, Elma; Chappin, Maryse M.H. (AOSIS, 2023-11-28)

  BACKGROUND : Entrepreneurship camps are an important platform for students to learn through action-based learning, problem-solving, knowledge and information sharing, which is enhanced through the development of social ...

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