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Acceptance of enterprise resource planning systems by small manufacturing enterprises

Author: Adam, R ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van der Merwe, A Date: Jun 2011 ERP systems are widely used by large enterprises for managing functional areas of the enterprise. However, recently ERP systems have also been introduced to the small enterprise market. ERP systems are now considered an important small ... Read more
Applying the foundations of enterprise systems engineering in complex real-world environments: lessons learnt from real-world project examples

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; Smuts, H Date: Nov 2016 Enterprise systems engineering (ESE) is a multidisciplinary approach that combines traditional systems engineering (TSE) and strategic management to address methods and approaches for aligning system architectures, system development and ... Read more
Are organisations in South Africa ready to comply with personal data protection or privacy legislation and regulations?

Author: Baloyi, Ntsako ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Jun 2017 This paper reports on a survey conducted to determine the readiness of organisations in South Africa to comply with personal data protection or privacy legislation and regulations. Issues addressed include employee knowledge of personal data ... Read more
Barriers & challenges to the adoption of E-Health standards in Africa

Author: Adebesin, F ; Kotzé, Paula ; Van Greunen, D ; Foster, R Date: Jul 2013 Although standardization is seen as the key to ensuring interoperability of healthcare information systems, the large numbers of standards available can make the selection decision difficult especially for a developing nation. This paper ... Read more
Client-vendor knowledge transfer mechanisms in the context of information systems outsourcing

Author: Smuts, H ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Aug 2015 High levels of shared knowledge can positively influence outsourcing performance and the combination of processes designed to transfer explicit and tacit knowledge, has the most influence on the level of shared knowledge. Some organisations ... Read more
Client-vendor knowledge transfer mechanisms in the context of information systems outsourcing

Author: Smuts, H ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Aug 2015 High levels of shared knowledge can positively influence outsourcing performance and the combination of processes designed to transfer explicit and tacit knowledge, has the most influence on the level of shared knowledge. Some organisations ... Read more
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
Complementary role of two evaluation methods in the usability and accessibility evaluation of a non-standard system

Author: Adebesin, F ; Kotzé, Paula ; Gelderblom, H Date: Oct 2010 Usability, which is generally defined in terms of application effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction, is one of the focus areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). Accessibility is the design of systems that can be perceived, ... Read more
A conceptual data model for a primary health care patient-centric electronic medical record system

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; Foster, R Date: Sep 2014 The development and use of national guidelines for the exchange of patient-centric healthcare data from electronic medical record systems are essential for the consistent and efficient use and analysis of those data. These guidelines must be ... 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
Cultural factors in a mobile phone adoption and usage model

Author: Van Biljon, J ; Kotzé, Paula Date: 2008 In human-computer interaction and computing, mobile phone usage is mostly addressed from a feature-driven perspective, i.e. which features do a certain user group use, and/or a usability perspective, i.e. how do they interact with these ... Read more
The design of application-specific heuristics for the usability evaluation of the digital doorway

Author: Adebesin, F ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Jun 2012 The Digital Doorway (DD) is a joint initiative between the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). The DD is a non-standard computer system ... Read more
Design research as a framework to evaluate the usability and accessibility of the digital doorway

Author: Adebesin, F ; Kotzé, Paula ; Gelderblom, H Date: Sep 2011 The usability and accessibility of interactive system interfaces, as well as their evaluation constitutes important focus areas of human-computer interaction (HCI). One of the families of evaluation methods that can be used to assess the ... Read more
Design science research as research approach in doctoral studies

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; van der Merwe, A ; Gerber, A Date: Aug 2015 Since the use of design science research (DSR) gained momentum as a research approach in information systems (IS), the adoption of a DSR approach in postgraduate studies became more acceptable. This paper reflects on a study to investigate ... Read more
Designing design exercises – from theory to creativity and real-world use

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; Purgathofer, P Date: 2009 This paper discusses a framework for design exercises for interaction design and HCI based on two theoretical frameworks and a set of knowledge transformers. The model scope design exercises on a continuum ranging from creativity to real-world ... Read more
Designing technology for young children: what we can learn from theories of cognitive development

Author: Gelderblom, H ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Oct 2008 The majority of guidelines and principles for design of technology are aimed at products for adults. The limited guidelines available for design of young children’s technology do not focus sufficiently on age-related requirements or they offer ... Read more
Do users know or care about what is done with their personal data: A South African study

Author: Baloyi, Ntsako ; Kotzé, Paula Date: May 2017 People engage with various technologies in their daily lives and become data subjects when they share personal information with software, devices, services or organisations. Sometimes individuals may be oblivious to the fact that their personal ... Read more
Do we practise what we preach in formulating our design and development methods?

Author: Kotzé, Paula ; Renaud, K Date: 2008 It is important, for our credibility as user interface designers and educators, that we practice what we preach. Many system designers and programmers remain sceptical about the need for user-centred design. To win them over, there is need ... 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
Framework and methodology for knowledge management system implementation

Author: Smuts, H ; Loock, M ; Van Der Merwe, A ; Kotzé, Paula Date: Oct 2009 Knowledge assets are of far greater value than any tangible asset and provide organisations with the basis for creating a sustainable competitive advantage. The nature of knowledge and knowledge management have given rise to a range of different ... Read more

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