Non-Corporate Research Output (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

Non-Corporate Research Output (Industrial and Systems Engineering)

 

A Collection of refereed articles, key note addresses and open lectures of the Department of Industrial - and Systems Engineering.

Recent Submissions

  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2009-06)
    BPM is the newest process management theory which views business processes as assets that can be managed and adapted in response to constant change. Without saying the benefits of BPM arises from this ability that the ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2009-07-08)
    Presentation on contributing towards the accelerated and shared growth initiative for South Africa.
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2009-07-08)
    The role and position of operations management in an organization depends on the value it contributes to the sustainability of the organization. Tactical operations management ensures that business strategy is appropriately ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2009-07-08)
    The concept of the value chain was made popular by Harvard University's Professor Michael Porter. The Porter value chain has been widely adopted by the business community as a mechanism to understand and comprehend complexity ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (SAIIE, 2008-10)
    Presentation on creating smart business processes
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-29)
    A Box-Plot is a visual display of the summary statistics associated with a process on a single graphic. It is a convenient way to compare the statistical characteristics of different processes and to monitor a process for ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-29)
    The calculation of individual probability terms from a Binomial distribution may cause some computational difficulties for large values of n. The same may be true for the Poisson distribution for large values of the mean. ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-29)
    The logical operations of a Union and an Intersection of several events defined on an event space is often required in the calculation of the probability for compound events. The concepts of Mutual Exclusiveness and Mutual ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-29)
    One of the principle purposes of mathematical statistics is to provide tools by which the existence of a "pattern" in a data set may be detected and quantified, or classified. Descriptive statistical measures and graphical ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-12)
    In statistical hypothesis testing, the P-value is the probability of obtaining a value of the test statistic at least as extreme as the one that was actually observed, given that the null hypothesis is true. The fact that ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-12)
    A Stem-and-Leaf plot, is a device for presenting quantitative data in a graphical format, similar to a histogram, to assist in visualizing the shape of a distribution. Unlike histograms, stem-and-leaf plots retain the ...
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-08-07)
  • Kruger, P.S. (Paul Stephanus), 1944- (2008-07-16)
    A Histogram is one of the most important tools of descriptive statistics. It provides a Graphical estimation of the Distribution and Statistical Characteristics of the underlying stochastic process from which the sample ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-06-12)
    The presentation addresses sytems thinking and business fractals, the enterprise architecture context and discusses the four process groupings of the Business process model.
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-03-25)
    Investment Portfolio Manager versus Board of Directors; Financial Market Investment Strategies drive asset classes and asset types; Strategy and context drives investment actions; Integrated framework to represent an ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-03-25)
    According to FutureWorld (see http://asp.futureworld.co.za) the past two decades have seen three major revolutions transforming world markets. The combination of globalisation, new management thinking and technology creates ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-03-25)
    The combination of globalisation, new management thinking and technology creates vast new open deregulated markets, wired together by a converging information highway. As new and transformed organisations are re-writing ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-03-25)
    Engineering is concerned with the economical use of limited resources for the benefit of mankind. Business engineering is a systems approach to the analysis, design, development, construction and implementation of holistic ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C. (2008-03-25)
    Business processes and their supporting architecture forms the foundation of the business process management implementation. A high number of business process change projects fail in organisations. All organisations have, ...
  • Janse van Rensburg, Antonie C.; Breedt, Marlize (2008-03-25)
    The emergence of the Information Age necessitates the need to manage the organisation’s knowledge asset. The competitive advantage of the organisation depends on the quality of the organisation’s knowledge asset and the ...

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