The research described in this article is motivated by the need to provide models and frameworks that would guide online web-stores in their platform provisioning and customer retention. The authors propose the e-tailer Platform Functionality Model (ePFM) for modelling the requirements of...

The research reported in this paper outlines the construction and utilisation of a diagnostic tool for performing what we call a material knowledge audit in an enterprise of medium complexity. The tool was developed by adapting some of the more applicable techniques suggested in the literature...

This article presents an enlightened and egalitarian framework that evaluates the impact of universities in the infrastructure, governance, talent and culture dimensions of enlightened, neo-humanist and knowledge societies. We will expound the above stated role of a university by first...