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A comparison of practitioner and researcher definitions of enterprise architecture using an interpretation method

Author: Mentz, J ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Oct 2012 The term enterprise architecture has been in use for almost thirty years if the seminal paper (published in 1987) by Zachman is taken as its starting point. As a scientific area of study this time span is relatively short but for the practitioner ... Read more
The conceptual framework for financial reporting as a domain ontology

Author: Gerber, MC ; Gerber, AJ ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Aug 2015 The Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (CFfFR) was developed to provide guidance to users and preparers of financial reports and standards. However, general consensus within the accounting community is that the Conceptual Framework ... Read more
The conceptual framework for financial reporting as a domain ontology

Author: Gerber, MC ; Gerber, AJ ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Aug 2015 The Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting (CFfFR) was developed to provide guidance to users and preparers of financial reports and standards. However, general consensus within the accounting community is that the Conceptual Framework ... Read more
Course management systems from a usability perspective

Author: Padayachee, I ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A Date: 2011 The advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web has revolutionised practices in business, government, health, and education amongst others. In education, the Internet and World Wide Web opened new doors for teaching and learning, thereby ... Read more
Decision support for grape harvesting at a South African winery

Author: Van der Merwe, A ; Van Dyk, FE ; Van Vuuren, JH Date: Dec 2011 Recent technological advances have had a major impact on the management of traditional wineries, giving rise to the prospect of computerised decision support with respect to a range of complex harvesting and wine making decisions which have ... Read more
Documenting open source migration processes for re-use

Author: Gerber, A ; Molefe, Onkgopotse M ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Oct 2010 There are several sources that indicate a remarkable increase in the adoption of open source software (OSS) into the technology infrastructure of organizations. In fact, the number of medium to large organizations without some OSS installations, ... Read more
Enterprise architecture for small and medium enterprise growth

Author: Jacobs, D ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A ; Gerber, A Date: May 2011 A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Criticism against growth stage models for SMEs is of concern, since these models ... Read more
The enterprise engineering domain

Author: De Vries, M ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Jun 2015 Enterprise engineering (EE) is emerging as a new discipline to address the design of the enterprise in a holistic way. Although existing knowledge on enterprise design is dispersed and fragmented across different disciplines and approaches, ... Read more
An exploratory survey of design science research amongst South African computing scholars

Author: Naidoo, R ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Oct 2012 The debate ensues as to whether the traditional focus of computing research on theory development and verification and therefore has adequate immediate practical relevance. Despite increasing claims of the potential of design science research ... Read more
Exploring the future of Enterprise Architecture: A Zachman perspective

Author: Lapalme, J ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A ; Zachman, J ; De Vries, M ; Hinkelmann, K Date: Jul 2015 Today, and for the foreseeable future, organizations will face ever-increasing levels of complexity and uncertainty. Many believe that enterprise architecture (EA) will help organizations address such difficult terrain by guiding the design ... Read more
A framework for creating pattern languages for enterprise architecture

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; Tsogang, M ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Oct 2012 The use of patterns and pattern languages in enterprise architecture (EA) is a relatively novel concept. Although both the concepts of patterns and EA are over 30 years old, the notion of design patterns is hardly applied to EA. There is a ... Read more
Framework for managing shared knowledge in an information systems outsourcing context

Author: Smuts, H ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A ; Loock, M Date: Nov 2017 Both information systems (IS) outsourcing and knowledge management are well-established business phenomena. The integration of shared knowledge in an IS outsourcing arrangement, represents the blending of organisational knowledge with external ... Read more
A growth state transition model as driver for business process management in small medium enterprises

Author: Jacobs, D ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Apr 2017 A key constraint for growing small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in South Africa is the business skills required to grow the enterprises through the stages of transformation. Business process management (BPM) is one of the skills that could ... Read more
Information systems outsourcing issues in the communication technology sector

Author: Smuts, H ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A ; Loock, M Date: Mar 2010 Organisations do not have unlimited resources and, by considering outsourcing, are balancing endless requirements with organisational assets. Outsourcing allows access to expertise, knowledge and capabilities outside of the organisation’s ... Read more
Key characteristics relevant for selecting knowledge management software tools

Author: Smuts, H ; Van der Merwe, A ; Loock, M Date: Jul 2011 The shift to knowledge as the primary source of value results in the new economy being led by those who manage knowledge effectively. Today’s organisations are creating and leveraging knowledge, data and information at an unprecedented pace ... Read more
Method for identifying process reuse opportunities to enhance the operating model

Author: De Vries, M ; Van der Merwe, A ; Kotzé, Paula ; Gerber, A Date: Dec 2011 Staying competitive in the 21st century requires enterprise unity and integration, allowing for agility to accommodate swift changes in strategy as markets evolve and new opportunities emerge. The foundation for execution approach acknowledges ... Read more
The nature of the enterprise engineering discipline

Author: De Vries, M ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: May 2014 Enterprise engineering originated as a practice with most publications focusing on the practical facets without the underlying scientific foundation. Foundational works emerged from different authors in recent years, including Dietz, Hoogervorst ... Read more
A new paradigm for continuous alignment of business and IT: combining enterprise architecture modeling and enterprise ontology

Author: Hinkelmann, K ; Karagiannis, D ; Thoenssen, B ; Woitsch, R ; Gerber, A ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Aug 2015 The ability to react timeously to continuous and unexpected change is called agility and is an essential quality of the modern enterprise. Being agile has consequences for the engineering of enterprises and enterprise information systems. We ... Read more
Refining the operating model concept to enable systematic growth in operating maturity

Author: De Vries, M ; Van der Merwe, A ; Gerber, A ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Oct 2010 To stay competitive, enterprises of today need to rely on a sound foundation for execution that incorporates the infrastructure and digitised processes for automating a company’s core capabilities. Once this foundation has been established, ... Read more
Rethinking sustainability of small towns : towards a socio-technical approach

Author: Pelser, A ; Van der Merwe, A ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Oct 2012 This chapter suggests that a socio-technical approach (STA) can support decision-making, enhance economic diversity and foster sustainable economic development within small, single-resource towns. The concept socio-technical describes a ... Read more

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