ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Knowledge is increasingly being recognised as the key element to an organisation’s sustainabilityand competitiveness. Knowledge assets refer to organisational resources made of or incorporatingknowledge. These assets ultimately create the ability for an organisation to carry...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Marketing practitioners and academics are increasingly applying the concepts and techniquesof products or services branding to the branding of destinations. To date, most of thesestudies focussed on using product and services branding concepts for branding destinationson the...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:Municipalities in South Africa, especially rural ones, have been struggling to deliver servicesto communities to the extent that government placed those worse-off under ProjectConsolidate. The implementation of Project Consolidate indicate that the capability ofmunicipalities to...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT:In an effort to streamline operations and focus on what they regard as core activities, a growingnumber of organizations from both developed and developing countries are increasingly lookingto outsource their software development and maintenance activities to lower cost...

In the fast-changing environment of today, organisations have a tendency to change theirstrategy to be able to adapt to changing circumstances. It has become increasinglyimportant for organisations to remain competitive in the marketplace. The managementof organisations is therefore showing more...

The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is generally interpreted as the set of procedures that transform inputs into outputs and as the method by which information systems are built. In the software development industry, the SDLC not only produces information systems but also is itself a type...

Intelligent Product Recommendation Agents have been used for some time now by large, well known Internet businesses such as Amazon and Netflix. Unfortunately there is little research assessing the effectiveness of these systems in influencing online consumer behavior. Businesses that sell...

Healthcare organizations are struggling to meet security best practices, as well as complying with regulatory requirements for individual accountability. Currently emerging as a leading technology for password authentication management is the use of single sign-on technology (SSO). SSO promises...

The strategic focus in many organisations is on innovation. This is driven by the needto grow and sustain shareholder value. Innovation takes the form of business processinnovation, technological innovation and social innovation through acts oforganisational restructuring. Innovation strategies...

The study was conducted to establish whether there is a need at the Medical Research Council for a formal CI function to be implemented. The objective of the investigation was to establish whether the CI techniques and methods, which are traditionally applied in the commercial industry, could be...