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Browsing by UP Author "Pretorius, Leon"
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Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, Leon
(Wiley, 2021-07)
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Ogano, N.O.; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2017-05-26)
Many projects in the electricity energy sector in Africa’s sub-Saharan region experience delays and challenges to quality, leading to frequent power outages that slow overall economic activity and frustrate investor ...
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Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016-08-12)
In complex sociotechnical systems, cognitive and social humans use technology to make sense of situations when making decisions. These elements make sociotechnical systems difficult to develop. A modelling and assessment ...
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Ladzani, Watson; Smith, Nico; Pretorius, Leon
(The Physical Development Sciences, University of the Free State, 2010-06)
In South Africa, small, medium and micro enterprises (SMMEs) are characterised by poor management, weak entrepreneurial performance and low global competitiveness, among other challenges. The primary objective of this ...
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Oosthuizen, Rudolph; Pretorius, Leon
(Inderscience, 2022)
Publication of research outputs is a method of researchers to capture their knowledge generated. Analysing the publication topics and trends in a research field can provide insight into the main research trends. A bibliometric ...
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Malik, Pravir; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-05-31)
This article leverages a mathematical model of innovation for complex adaptive systems (CAS) to explore, ex post facto, organisational innovation investigations conducted by the first author at Stanford University Medical ...
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Chitongo, Alfred Mutizwa; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-05-31)
Different project participants often have different objectives and expectations, and implement different controls aimed at advancing their interests. This article investigates project controls taken by the client during ...
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Qin, Xiaoshun; Jiang, Dongdong; Pretorius, Leon
(Association of Agricultural Technology in Southeast Asia, 2022-01)
After-sales service (ASS) plays a significant role following the agricultural machinery
being sold. With the development of trade and economic exchange between South Africa and
China. Chinese agricultural machinery has ...
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Fanta, Getnet Bogale; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2018-11-09)
There is evidence that several eHealth pilot projects in developing countries could not progress to full-scale implementation — sometimes referred to as the ‘pilotitis’ of the eHealth system. The sustainable eHealth ...
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Jiang, Dongdong; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2011)
Past researchers and practitioners have realised that merely developing scheduling techniques is not enough to ensure successful engineering projects, and that communication behaviour is also a critical cultural issue for ...
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Joubert, F.J. (Francois); Pretorius, Leon
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2020-01)
This paper presents the risk identification process, a checklist of 215 different risks, and an associated risk breakdown structure (RBS) for the design and construction phases for a shipping port and associated container ...
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Scribante, Naudé Pieter; Pretorius, Leon; Benade, S.J. (Siebert)
(South African Institute of Industrial Engineering, 2019-12)
This paper presents research relating to the challenges of conducting research in a complex, socio-technical system. The result of this research is that a conventional research approach is fundamentally reactive and does ...
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Twala, V.G.; Auf der Heyde, T.; Bredell, P.J.; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-11)
The search for consensus on spent fuel management (SFM) strategies in the nuclear
industry has become complex, not least in the South African context. This study
identifies three SFM options: reprocessing-and-recycling, ...
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Xu, Dafeng; Jiang, Dongdong; Pretorius, Leon
(Open Journal Systems, 2017)
Many risks emerge in logistics projects. These risks pose a direct or indirect threat to the results
of these projects. In China, project management has only recently been introduced to the logistics industry,
so little ...
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Pretorius, Leon; Kruger, Sunita
(International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2011)
Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Mauritius, 11-13 July, 2011.
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Pretorius, Leon; Kruger, S.
(International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, 2015)
Papers presented to the 11th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, South Africa, 20-23 July 2015.
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Banda, R.K.; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2016-12)
This research was carried out to determine the effect of scope definition on public building projects that are implemented by project implementing agencies (PIAs) in Malawi. The research sought to investigate the relationship ...
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Khota, Irfaan A.; Pretorius, Leon
(Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2008-05)
Global competitiveness and category leadership is the strategic challenge for South African innovators over the next decade. Within the context of engineering management, this research identifies the strategic drivers and ...
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Amoah, Christopher; Pretorius, Leon
(Emerald, 2020-04)
PURPOSE : Risk management has become an integral part in businesses around the world. In the construction industry, risk management has also been introduced and has been mainly entrusted in the hands of the project team ...
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Schulze, Stephan; Pretorius, Leon
(South African Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2013-03)
This article describes the findings of an exploratory case study into the requirements
management and engineering processes of a South African Systems Engineering Company and how
these processes affect the business of ...