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The Role of ICT within Small and Medium Enterprises in Gauteng.

Modimogale, Lloyd; Kroeze, Jan H (IBIMA Publishing, 2011)

This article discusses the role of information and communication technology (ICT) within the small and medium enterprise (SME) sector in Gauteng, a province in South Africa. ICT plays a very important role in the current ...
Simulation experiments for maximising the availability of a commercial octene production facility

Rossouw, R F; Coetzer, R L J; Pretorius, P D (2010)

Overall availability of a chemical process is of critical importance in industry. In this paper we evaluate the process design factors that inﬂuence the availability of a new chemical production facility by performing ...
The use of disruptive information technologies for competitive advantage in the banking sector of South Africa.

Windell, Anneke C.; Kroeze, Jan H. (Hempstead, NY : International Business Information Management Association (IBIMA), 2009)

The main focus of this paper is to determine the impact of disruptive technology in the ICT environment and how new technologies can be managed in a secured architecture framework of organisations in the banking sector. ...
Using ICTs to become a competitive SME in South Africa

Modimogale, Lloyd; Kroeze, Jan H (2009)

This paper discusses the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) sector in South Africa. It looks at the current state of affairs regarding the use of ICT by ...
Using queuing theory to reduce the number of abandoned calls at a central service desk

Pretorius, Philip D; Madisa, Victoira G; Kroeze, Jan H (2010)

This paper addresses the problem of an unacceptably high rate of abandoned calls at a centralised service desk of a South African telecommunications company. It uses a queuing methodology to design a system that may ...
Water poverty mapping and its management applications

Van der Vyver, Charles; Jordaan, Dawid B (IBIMA, 2010)

In recent years it has been widely recognized that water was managed with little regard to efficiency in its utilization and with no or very little effective pollution control. The amount of freshwater on earth will continue ...