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Howard, Grant(Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited (ACPI), 2017-03-16)
Information Technology (IT) is indispensable to modern, competitive organisations and is instrumental in the many changes experienced by these organisations. The paper argues that IT-related organisational change follows ...
Efforts have been made by researchers to comprehend the nature and factors that contribute to the digital divide in developing countries and several attempts have been made to bridge this divide. Literature mostly investigates ...
Marin, Mike A; Lotriet, Hugo; Van Der Poll, John A(SAICSIT, 2015-09-28)
The Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN)
speci cation, published by the Object Management Group
(OMG) in 2014, describes a declarative style for modeling
business processes. The declarative nature of CMMN is ...
Marin, Mike A; Lotriet, Hugo; Van Der Poll, John A(SAICSIT, 2014-09-29)
In 2014, the Object Management Group (OMG) published
the Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN) ver-
sion 1.0 speci cation, which is a new process modeling spec-
i cation to complement its Business Process Modeling ...
This paper proposes an IS theory of reciprocal change. The research problem addressed in the paper is the absence of an IS theory that explains the reciprocity of change within IS. The questions that the paper answers is, ...
The term ‘digital divide’ was introduced in the mid-1990s and has become popular as an area of interdisciplinary concern. The term has received much attention from many researchers and policy makers. However it remains an ...
The digital divide has been a problem since the early days of information and communication technology (ICT) and it manifests itself in many forms, for example in a lack of access to the Internet, inadequate ICT skills and ...
The career choice model of Adya and Kaiser posits the availability of technology resources as a
structural element impacting on career choice. The model distinguishes between accessibility at
school and at home. Based ...
ICT policies instituted over a number of years by the South African government have
failed manifestly in establishing cyber communities amongst rural people in South
Africa. The authors of this paper argue that for rural ...
This paper examines the interaction between science and society. Society considers these
interactions as vital to understand and reduce the uncertainty of the impact of scientific
activity on society. The purpose of this ...
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a co-design process that was initiated between
government and the private sector in Botswana to redesign current ISD practice with particular focus
on finding a solution ...
Ajigini, Olusegun Ademolu; Van der Poll , John Andrew; Kroeze, Jan H(2015)
Software migrations are mostly performed by organizations using migration teams. Such migration
teams need to be aware of how sensitive information ought to be handled and protected during the
implementation of the ...
Expatriate adjustment research has identi ed a number of challenges that expatriates experience when adjusting to the host
country. These include spousal in
uence, cultural training/understanding,
uency in the host ...
The benefits of incorporating Semantic Web Services in web applications are well documented. However, both the real-world
implementation and adoption of these services are still rather limited in practice. This is despite ...
Strong arguments exist that the sub-disciplines of Information Systems (IS) and Computer Science (CS) can be meaningfully
distinguished, and the literature indicates that teams in which there are variety of personalities ...
The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at UNISA has adopted a new method of assessing students who has registered for End-User Computing (EUC). UNISA is a distance-education university offering tuition ...
Agents and mobile agents hold significant benefits for current trends in computing. Despite some industries actively exploring mobile agent applications the promised deployment has not taken place as expected. Possible ...
Over the past eighteen months, there has been a renewed interest in mobile agent technology due to the continued exponential growth of Internet applications, the establishment of open standards for these applications, as ...
Due to the rise of data breaches, organisations constantly need to develop new strategies and security architectures to protect their data assets. This must be done to prevent further breaches, financial losses and a ...
We investigated, through an action research approach, social issues that impact
on mobile technology adoption and diffusion in a professional construction management
team of a small-to-medium sized South African construction ...