Many studies have been done to determine the benefits that the alignment ofbusiness and IT strategies can achieve. This has become more prominent as IThas evolved. Previous studies have highlighted that this has been difficult toachieve. From these studies many factors have been identified that...

South Africa has a well defined, highly complex private healthcare services industry with a high reliance on the use of intricate IT systems to ensure its sustainability. The requiredcompetitive advantage through better decision making and improved outcomes measuresmay be facilitated by an...

With the current global financial crisis, the uncertain economic outlook in South Africa and the pressure on financial institutions to operate more effectively and efficiently, there has been a significant shift in focus for banks in South Africa. This shift in focus entails placing greater...

Financial markets are in crises mode due mainly to the American credit crunch, based on the sub-prime lending fiasco. Due to globalisation and the global economy, the diverse impacts of the crises are felt almost everywhere. Global competition is not something that is limited to certain...

With the current global financial crisis, the uncertain economic outlook in SouthAfrica and the pressure on financial institutions to operate more effectively andefficiently, there has been a significant shift in focus for banks in South Africa. Thisshift in focus entails placing greater...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect that information system resources and capabilities have on company performance. This study was a replication of research conducted in the United States where Resource Based theory was used as the theoretical framework to analyse the...

Mobile phone web utilisation is relatively new in South Africa, and not only does it providemore convenience to existing Internet users, but it can potentially overcome the accessproblems that are attendant in the utilisation of the web by most South Africans. This couldgo a long way to bridging...

Faced by ever increasing expenditure on Information Technology (IT),organisations are turning to what can be perceived as measures of world-classperformance such as benchmarking to identify weaknesses in their practices. The objectives of this research were two-fold: Firstly, to explore in what...

The purpose of the report is to look at some of the factors that impede thetransfer of tacit knowledge within and between projects. The research involved the collection of quantitative data through non-probabilitypurposive sampling. The data based on survey questionnaires obtained fromthe...