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The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent response by governments to introduce national lockdown regulations have confined individuals to their residential premises. As a result, no recreational or sport activities are allowed outside the (often small) boundaries of family homes, a situation often rapidly introducing social isolation. Research has proven that emotional coping mechanisms, such as sport, can lower the stressful and uncertainty burden on individuals. However, without the availability of this coping mechanism, many individuals have been forced to use virtual sport training technology to keep active. This preliminary quantitative study investigated the role of technology, in particular virtual sport training technology (if any) by cyclists as emotional coping mechanism during a period of national lockdown. The results of an online survey indicated that sport, in general, has always been an emotional coping mechanism during normal challenging situations but that slightly more respondents used sport as mechanism during the lockdown period. Respondents indicated that virtual cycling training technology enabled them to continue with using their normal coping mechanism even in a period of national lockdown. One of the benefits of a virtual training environment is the ability to socialize by riding with virtual team members. Surprisingly, the number of cyclists who preferred riding alone in the virtual cycling environment was slightly more than the cyclists who preferred to join scheduled rides with virtual team members. The research is the first step towards an in-depth investigation into the adoption of technology as an emotional coping mechanism in stressful environments.
Sunet Eybers; Aurona Gerber. A Preliminary Investigation into the Role of Virtual Sport Training Technology as Emotional Coping Mechanism During a National Pandemic Lockdown. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2021, 186, 186 -194.
AMA StyleSunet Eybers, Aurona Gerber. A Preliminary Investigation into the Role of Virtual Sport Training Technology as Emotional Coping Mechanism During a National Pandemic Lockdown. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2021; 186 ():186-194.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSunet Eybers; Aurona Gerber. 2021. "A Preliminary Investigation into the Role of Virtual Sport Training Technology as Emotional Coping Mechanism During a National Pandemic Lockdown." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 186, no. : 186-194.
Social communities play a significant role in understanding complex societies, from communities formed by support interactions between friends and family to community structures that depict the flow of information, money and power. With the emergence of the internet, the nature of social networks changed because communities could form disassociated from physical location, and social network analysis (SNA) on social media such as Twitter and Facebook emerged as a distinct research field. Studies suggest that Twitter feeds have a significant influence on the views and opinions of society, and subsequently the formation of communities. This paper reports on a study where social network analysis was performed on Twitter feeds in South Africa around the 2019 elections to detect distinct patterns within the overall network. In the datasets that were analysed, a specific network pattern namely Broadcast Networks were observed. A Broadcast Network typically reflects central hubs such as media houses, political parties or influencers whose messages are repeated without interaction or discussion. Our results indicate that there were few discussions and interactions and that messages were broadcasted from central nodes even though the general experience of Twitter users during this time was of intense discussions and differences in opinion.
Aurona Gerber; Stefanie Strachan. Network Patterns in South African Election Tweets. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies 2021, 3 -13.
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Stefanie Strachan. Network Patterns in South African Election Tweets. Inventive Computation and Information Technologies. 2021; ():3-13.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Stefanie Strachan. 2021. "Network Patterns in South African Election Tweets." Inventive Computation and Information Technologies , no. : 3-13.
Understanding and explaining small- and medium-sized enterprise (SME) growth is important for sustainability from multiple perspectives. Research indicates that SMEs comprise more than 80% of most economies, and their cumulative impact on sustainability considerations is far from trivial. In addition, for sustainability concerns to be prioritized, an SME has to be successful over time. In most developing countries, SMEs play a major role in solving socio-economic challenges. SMEs are an active research topic within the information systems (IS) discipline, often within the enterprise architecture (EA) domain. EA fundamentally adopts a systems perspective to describe the essential elements of a socio-technical organization and their relationships to each other and to the environment in order to understand complexity and manage change. However, despite rapid adoption originally, EA research and practice often fails to deliver on expectations. In some circles, EA became synonymous with projects that are over-budget, over-time and costly without the expected return on investment. In this paper, we argue that EA remains indispensable for understanding and explaining enterprises and that we fundamentally need to revisit some of the applications of EA. We, therefore, executed a research study in two parts. In the first part, we applied IS theory perspectives and adopted the taxonomy and structural components of theory to argue that EA, as represented by the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture (ZFEA), could be adopted as an explanatory IS theory. In the second part of the study, we subsequently analysed multiple case studies from this theoretical basis to investigate whether distinguishable focus patterns could be detected during SME growth. The final results provide evidence that EA, represented through an appropriate framework like the ZFEA, could serve as an explanatory theory for SMEs during start-up, growth and transformation. We identified focus patterns and from these results, it should be possible to understand and explain how SMEs grow. Positioning the ZFEA as explanatory IS theory provides insight into the role and purpose of the ZFEA (and by extension EA), and could assist researchers and practitioners with mediating the challenges experienced by SMEs, and, by extension, enhance sustainable development.
Aurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Alta Van Der Merwe. Enterprise Architecture as Explanatory Information Systems Theory for Understanding Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Growth. Sustainability 2020, 12, 8517 .
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Pierre Le Roux, Alta Van Der Merwe. Enterprise Architecture as Explanatory Information Systems Theory for Understanding Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Growth. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (20):8517.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Alta Van Der Merwe. 2020. "Enterprise Architecture as Explanatory Information Systems Theory for Understanding Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprise Growth." Sustainability 12, no. 20: 8517.
Enterprise Architecture (EA) has had an interesting and often controversial history since its inception in the late 80’s by pioneers such as John Zachman. Zachman proposed the Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture (ZFEA), a descriptive, holistic representation of an enterprise for the purposes of providing insights and understanding. Some scholars claim that EA is an imperative to ensure successful business structures or business-IT alignment, or more recently with Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM), to manage required organizational transformation. However, EA initiatives within companies are often costly and the expected return on investment is not realized. In fact, Gartner recently indicated in their 2018 Enterprise Architecture Hype Cycle that EA is slowly emerging from the trough of disillusionment after nearly a decade. In this paper we argue that the role and value of EA is often misunderstood, and that EA, specifically the ZFEA for the purpose of this paper, could be considered as a theory given the view of theory within Information Systems (IS). The purpose of IS theories is to analyse, predict, explain and/or prescribe and it could be argued that EA often conform to these purposes. Using the taxonomy of theories as well as the structural components of theory within IS as proposed by Gregor, we motivate that the ZFEA could be regarded as an explanatory theory. Positioning ZFEA as IS explanatory theory provides insight into the role and purpose of the ZFEA (and by extension EA), and could assist researchers and practitioners with mediating the challenges experienced when instituting EA and EAM initiatives within organizations.
Aurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Carike Kearney; Alta Van Der Merwe. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2020, 383 -396.
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Pierre Le Roux, Carike Kearney, Alta Van Der Merwe. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2020; ():383-396.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Carike Kearney; Alta Van Der Merwe. 2020. "The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 383-396.
Aurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Carike Kearney; Alta Van Der Merwe. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory. 2020, 12066, 383 -396.
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Pierre Le Roux, Carike Kearney, Alta Van Der Merwe. The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory. . 2020; 12066 ():383-396.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Pierre Le Roux; Carike Kearney; Alta Van Der Merwe. 2020. "The Zachman Framework for Enterprise Architecture: An Explanatory IS Theory." 12066, no. : 383-396.
Information Systems (IS) as a discipline is still young and is continuously involved in building its own research knowledge base. Design Science Research (DSR) in IS is a research strategy for design that has emerged in the last 16 years. Junior IS researchers are often lost when they start with a project in DSR. We identified a need for a set of guidelines with supporting reference literature that can assist such novice adopters of DSR. We identified major themes relevant to DSR and proposed a set of six guidelines for the novice researcher supported with references summaries of seminal works from the IS DSR literature. We believe that someone new to the field can use these guidelines to prepare him/herself to embark on a DSR study.
Alta van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber; Hanlie Smuts. Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems. Communications in Computer and Information Science 2019, 163 -178.
AMA StyleAlta van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber, Hanlie Smuts. Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 2019; ():163-178.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlta van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber; Hanlie Smuts. 2019. "Guidelines for Conducting Design Science Research in Information Systems." Communications in Computer and Information Science , no. : 163-178.
Digital disruption is the phenomenon when established businesses succumb to new business models that exploit emerging technologies. Futurists often make dire predictions when discussing the impact of digital disruption, for instance that 40% of the Fortune 500 companies will disappear within the next decade. The digital disruption phenomenon was already studied two decades ago when Clayton Christensen developed a Theory of Disruptive Innovation, which is a popular theory for describing and explaining disruption due to technology developments that had occurred in the past. However it is still problematic to understand what is necessary to avoid disruption, especially within the context of a sustainable society in the 21st century. A key aspect we identified is the behavior of non-mainstream customers of an emerging technology, which is difficult to predict, especially when an organization is operating in an existing solution space. In this position paper we propose complementing the Theory of Disruptive Innovation with design thinking in order to identify the performance attributes that encourage the unpredictable and unforeseen customer behavior that is a cause for disruption. We employ case-based scenario analysis of higher education as evaluation mechanism for our extended disruptive innovation theory. Our position is that a better understanding of the implicit and unpredictable customer behavior that cause disruption due to additional performance attributes (using design thinking) could assist organizations to pre-empt digital disruption and adapt to support the additional functionality.
Aurona Gerber; Machdel Matthee. Design Thinking for Pre-empting Digital Disruption. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2019, 759 -770.
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Machdel Matthee. Design Thinking for Pre-empting Digital Disruption. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2019; ():759-770.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Machdel Matthee. 2019. "Design Thinking for Pre-empting Digital Disruption." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 759-770.
Advanced modeling is a challenging endeavor and good tool support is of paramount importance to ensure that the modeling objectives are met through the efficient execution of tasks. Tools for advanced modeling should not just support basic task modeling functionality such as easy-to-use interfaces for model creation, but also advanced task functionality such as consistency checks and analysis queries. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is concerned with the alignment of all aspects of an organization. Modeling plays a crucial role in EA and the matching of the correct tool to enable task execution is vital for enterprises engaged with EA. Enterprise Architecture Management (EAM) reflects recent trends that elevate EA toward a strategic management function within organizations. Tool support for EAM would necessarily include the execution of additional and often implicit advanced modeling tasks that support EAM capabilities. In this paper we report on a study that used the Task-Technology Fit (TTF) theory to investigate the extent to which basic and advanced task execution for EAM is supported by technology. We found that four of the six TTF factors fully supported and one partially supported EAM task execution. One factor was inconclusive. This study provided a insight into investigating tool support for EAM related task execution to achieve strategic EAM goals.
Sunet Eybers; Aurona Gerber; Dominik Bork; Dimitris Karagiannis. Matching Technology with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Management Tasks Using Task Technology Fit. Business Information Systems 2019, 245 -260.
AMA StyleSunet Eybers, Aurona Gerber, Dominik Bork, Dimitris Karagiannis. Matching Technology with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Management Tasks Using Task Technology Fit. Business Information Systems. 2019; ():245-260.
Chicago/Turabian StyleSunet Eybers; Aurona Gerber; Dominik Bork; Dimitris Karagiannis. 2019. "Matching Technology with Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Architecture Management Tasks Using Task Technology Fit." Business Information Systems , no. : 245-260.
Diagrams are widely used in our day to day communication. A knowledge of the spatial patterns used in diagrams is essential to read and understand them. In the context of diagrams, spatial patterns mean accepted spatial arrangements of graphical and textual elements used to represent diagram-specific concepts. In order to assist with the automated understanding of diagrams by computer applications, this paper presents an ontology-based approach to recognise diagram-specific concepts from the spatial patterns in diagrams. Specifically, relevant spatial patterns of diagrams are encoded in an ontology, and the automated instance classification feature of the ontology reasoners is utilised to map spatial patterns to diagram-specific concepts depicted in a diagram. A prototype of this approach to support automated recognition of UML and domain concepts from class diagrams and its performance are also discussed in this paper. This paper concludes with a reflection of the strengths and limitations of the proposed approach.
Anitta Thomas; Aurona J. Gerber; Alta Van Der Merwe. Ontology-Based Spatial Pattern Recognition in Diagrams. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures 2018, 61 -72.
AMA StyleAnitta Thomas, Aurona J. Gerber, Alta Van Der Merwe. Ontology-Based Spatial Pattern Recognition in Diagrams. Security Education and Critical Infrastructures. 2018; ():61-72.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnitta Thomas; Aurona J. Gerber; Alta Van Der Merwe. 2018. "Ontology-Based Spatial Pattern Recognition in Diagrams." Security Education and Critical Infrastructures , no. : 61-72.
Aurona Gerber; Nishal Morar; Thomas Meyer; Connal Eardley. Ontology-based support for taxonomic functions. Ecological Informatics 2017, 41, 11 -23.
AMA StyleAurona Gerber, Nishal Morar, Thomas Meyer, Connal Eardley. Ontology-based support for taxonomic functions. Ecological Informatics. 2017; 41 ():11-23.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAurona Gerber; Nishal Morar; Thomas Meyer; Connal Eardley. 2017. "Ontology-based support for taxonomic functions." Ecological Informatics 41, no. : 11-23.
This paper investigates how Data as a disruptive technology could be integrated into TOGAF. Given the recent attention of Big Data and Data Science as disruptors, this paper investigates what the impact on the enterprise could be and how Enterprise Architecture (EA) should accommodate data to enable data-driven EA. There is no model currently available that investigates how Big Data can be incorporated into data-driven EA solutions. This study specifically focuses on how the TOGAF ADM could support a data-driven enterprise. Through document analysis and a systematic literature review, a specific adaption of the TOGAF ADM is proposed that indicates the influence that Data and Big Data has on each phase within the ADM.
Carike Kearny; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe. Data-driven enterprise architecture and the TOGAF ADM phases. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2017, 4603 -4608.
AMA StyleCarike Kearny, Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe. Data-driven enterprise architecture and the TOGAF ADM phases. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). 2017; ():4603-4608.
Chicago/Turabian StyleCarike Kearny; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe. 2017. "Data-driven enterprise architecture and the TOGAF ADM phases." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) , no. : 4603-4608.
The concept of psychological ownership where someone can identify something as their own is part of every person's life. Psychological ownership is important because someone that own something take responsibility for its wellbeing. Currently there is no mechanism to measure psychological ownership of equipment within the context of small entrepreneurial business in South Africa. In this MOSAIC-2B project case study cinema-in-a-backpack equipment was given to entrepreneurs to empower them to start their own successful businesses screening multi-media content in rural South Africa. This research aimed to identify whether or not individuals developed psychological ownership towards the cinema equipment and what the possible effects of having psychological ownership could be. This study resulted in the development of a measuring tool for psychological ownership in the context of small entrepreneurial businesses in South Africa. Psychological ownership can give valuable insight into how entrepreneurs run their businesses in South Africa and this study also established that individuals that perceive themselves as successful has a higher indication of psychological ownership.
Toinette Barnard; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. Psychological ownership: A human factor to consider for the success of technology enterpreneurial activites. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) 2017, 4646 -4651.
AMA StyleToinette Barnard, Alta Van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber. Psychological ownership: A human factor to consider for the success of technology enterpreneurial activites. 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC). 2017; ():4646-4651.
Chicago/Turabian StyleToinette Barnard; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. 2017. "Psychological ownership: A human factor to consider for the success of technology enterpreneurial activites." 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) , no. : 4646-4651.
Thomas Van Der Meulen; Marne De Vries; Aurona Gerber. Demonstrating Approach Design Principles during the Development of a DEMO-based Enterprise Engineering Approach. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems 2017, 471 -482.
AMA StyleThomas Van Der Meulen, Marne De Vries, Aurona Gerber. Demonstrating Approach Design Principles during the Development of a DEMO-based Enterprise Engineering Approach. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems. 2017; ():471-482.
Chicago/Turabian StyleThomas Van Der Meulen; Marne De Vries; Aurona Gerber. 2017. "Demonstrating Approach Design Principles during the Development of a DEMO-based Enterprise Engineering Approach." Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems , no. : 471-482.
Observations of individual organisms (data) can be combined with expert ecological knowledge of species, especially causal knowledge, to model and extract from flower–visiting data useful information about behavioral interactions between insect and plant organisms, such as nectar foraging and pollen transfer. We describe and evaluate a method to elicit and represent such expert causal knowledge of behavioral ecology, and discuss the potential for wider application of this method to the design of knowledge-based systems for knowledge discovery in biodiversity and ecosystem informatics.
Willem Coetzer; Deshendran Moodley; Aurona Gerber. Eliciting and Representing High-Level Knowledge Requirements to Discover Ecological Knowledge in Flower-Visiting Data. PLOS ONE 2016, 11, e0166559 .
AMA StyleWillem Coetzer, Deshendran Moodley, Aurona Gerber. Eliciting and Representing High-Level Knowledge Requirements to Discover Ecological Knowledge in Flower-Visiting Data. PLOS ONE. 2016; 11 (11):e0166559.
Chicago/Turabian StyleWillem Coetzer; Deshendran Moodley; Aurona Gerber. 2016. "Eliciting and Representing High-Level Knowledge Requirements to Discover Ecological Knowledge in Flower-Visiting Data." PLOS ONE 11, no. 11: e0166559.
Anitta Thomas; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe. An Investigation into OWL for Concrete Syntax Specification Using UML Notations. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV 2016, 197 -211.
AMA StyleAnitta Thomas, Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe. An Investigation into OWL for Concrete Syntax Specification Using UML Notations. Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV. 2016; ():197-211.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnitta Thomas; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe. 2016. "An Investigation into OWL for Concrete Syntax Specification Using UML Notations." Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency XV , no. : 197-211.
The paper deals with Next Generation Enterprise Information Systems in the context of Enterprise Engineering. The continuous alignment of business and IT in a rapidly changing environment is a grand challenge for today’s enterprises. 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. In this paper a new paradigm for next generation enterprise information systems is proposed, which shifts the development approach of model-driven engineering to continuous alignment of business and IT for the agile enterprise. It is based on a metamodelling approach, which supports both human-interpretable graphical enterprise architecture and machine-interpretable enterprise ontologies. Furthermore, next generation enterprise information systems are described, which embed modelling tools and algorithms for model analysis.http://www.elsevier.com/locate/compind2017-06-30hb201
Knut Hinkelmann; Aurona Gerber; Dimitris Karagiannis; Barbara Thoenssen; Alta van der Merwe; Robert Woitsch. A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology. Computers in Industry 2016, 79, 77 -86.
AMA StyleKnut Hinkelmann, Aurona Gerber, Dimitris Karagiannis, Barbara Thoenssen, Alta van der Merwe, Robert Woitsch. A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology. Computers in Industry. 2016; 79 ():77-86.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKnut Hinkelmann; Aurona Gerber; Dimitris Karagiannis; Barbara Thoenssen; Alta van der Merwe; Robert Woitsch. 2016. "A new paradigm for the continuous alignment of business and IT: Combining enterprise architecture modelling and enterprise ontology." Computers in Industry 79, no. : 77-86.
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 of adaptive and resilient enterprises and their information systems. This paper presents the “Grand Challenges” that we believe will challenge organizations in the future and need to be addressed by enterprise architecture. As a first step in using enterprise architecture as a solution for overcoming identified challenges, the Zachman Enterprise Architecture Framework is used to guide and structure the discussion. The paper presents the “Grand Challenges” and discusses promising theories and models for addressing them. In addition, current advances in the field of enterprise architecture that have begun to address the challenges will be presented. In conclusion, final thoughts on the future of enterprise architecture as a research field and a profession are offered.http://www.elsevier.com /locate/compind2017-06-30hb2016Industrial and Systems Engineerin
James Lapalme; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe; John Zachman; Marne De Vries; Knut Hinkelmann. Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in Industry 2016, 79, 103 -113.
AMA StyleJames Lapalme, Aurona Gerber, Alta Van der Merwe, John Zachman, Marne De Vries, Knut Hinkelmann. Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective. Computers in Industry. 2016; 79 ():103-113.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJames Lapalme; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van der Merwe; John Zachman; Marne De Vries; Knut Hinkelmann. 2016. "Exploring the future of enterprise architecture: A Zachman perspective." Computers in Industry 79, no. : 103-113.
Project management is one of the oldest management processes with reference already to project management during the building of the pyramids. However, the current form of project management with the support of different tools such as electronic management systems, is relatively new. Although there are different project types the processes, principals and successes of these types might differ. In this research we are interested in the differences and similarities between system development projects and research projects. In our investigation we used a systematic review where we used a coding schema to identify themes in the two types of projects. In comparing the two types of projects, it was found that processes and principals do compare in several themes in the number of references to the themes, but the success factors for the two types of projects are significantly different.
Dizhon Visser; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. A comparison of project management in system and research projects. 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference 2016, 1 -10.
AMA StyleDizhon Visser, Alta Van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber. A comparison of project management in system and research projects. 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference. 2016; ():1-10.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDizhon Visser; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. 2016. "A comparison of project management in system and research projects." 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference , no. : 1-10.
The entertainment industry world-wide provides lucrative business opportunities, and within South Africa, this market is still underdeveloped, especially within rural communities. Within this context, the FP7 MOSAIC 2B project aimed to empower micro-entrepreneurs by providing them with a Cinema-in-a-Backpack, which is a set of equipment allowing them to screen movies in rural areas within South Africa. However, to ensure compliance, these micro-entrepreneurs had to acquire the necessary licenses, which proved to be challenging given the regulatory environment as well as the different stakeholders involved. Using a systematic literature review as well as the MOSAIC 2B project as a case study, this paper reports on an investigation on the process and procedure necessary for a micro-entrepreneur to acquire licenses in order to screen multimedia content within rural South Africa. The paper provides an overview of the regulatory landscape as well as the nature of the film industry in South Africa. The main contribution of the investigation is a process model that could be used by a microbusiness to understand the requirements and process to follow when acquiring a legal licence for the screening of multi-media content within South Africa.
Khumbo Masilela; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van De Merwe. Challenges and opportunities faced by micro-entrepreneurs to legally screen movies in rural South Africa. 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference 2016, 1 -9.
AMA StyleKhumbo Masilela, Aurona Gerber, Alta Van De Merwe. Challenges and opportunities faced by micro-entrepreneurs to legally screen movies in rural South Africa. 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference. 2016; ():1-9.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKhumbo Masilela; Aurona Gerber; Alta Van De Merwe. 2016. "Challenges and opportunities faced by micro-entrepreneurs to legally screen movies in rural South Africa." 2016 IST-Africa Week Conference , no. : 1-9.
Enterprise engineering (EE) emerged as a new discipline to encourage comprehensive and consistent enterprise design. Since EE is multidisciplinary, various researchers study enterprises from different perspectives, which resulted in a plethora of applicable literature and terminology, but without shared meaning. Previous research specifically focused on the fragmentation of knowledge for designing and aligning the information and communication technology (ICT) subsystem of the enterprise in order to support the business organisation subsystem of the enterprise. As a solution for this fragmented landscape, a business-IT alignment model (BIAM) was developed inductively from existing business-IT alignment approaches. Since most of the existing alignment frameworks addressed the alignment between the ICT subsystem and the business organisation subsystem, BIAM also focused on the alignment between these two subsystems. Yet, the emerging EE discipline intends to address a broader scope of design, evident in the existing approaches that incorporate a broader scope of design/alignment/governance. A need was identified to address the knowledge fragmentation of the EE knowledge base by adapting BIAM to an enterprise evolution contextualisation model (EECM), to contextualise a broader set of approaches, as identified by Lapalme. The main contribution of this article is the incremental development and evaluation of EECM. We also present guiding indicators/prerequisites for applying EECM as a contextualisation tool.
Marné De Vries; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. Extending the enterprise evolution contextualisation model. Enterprise Information Systems 2015, 11, 787 -827.
AMA StyleMarné De Vries, Alta Van der Merwe, Aurona Gerber. Extending the enterprise evolution contextualisation model. Enterprise Information Systems. 2015; 11 (6):787-827.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMarné De Vries; Alta Van der Merwe; Aurona Gerber. 2015. "Extending the enterprise evolution contextualisation model." Enterprise Information Systems 11, no. 6: 787-827.