Browsing Department of Information Systems by Title
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A framework to teach digital innovation skills to South African Information Systems students
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)The diffusion of the digital infrastructure is opening up multiple opportunities for innovations to transform business and society. The overall purpose of Information Systems (IS) education is to equip students to ... -
Analysing ICT Investment by Micro-enterprises in the Western Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Micro-enterprises solve many socio-economic issues facing developing nations because of their large contribution to economic development and progress. Micro-enterprises have been influenced by the continued globalisation, ... -
The application of usability principles to create web-based applications that achieve increased system usage
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This research work investigates and reports on the contribution of usability and perceptual frameworks towards understanding and ultimately increasing usage of a sales website and a corporate marketing website for a major ... -
Assessment of the quality of HIV data in an electronic system in a health sub-district in the Eastern Cape
(University of Western Cape, 2020)In South Africa, public health facilities provide free antiretroviral treatment (ART) mainly via primary healthcare (PHC) nurses. To streamline data collection an electronic HIV information system (TIER.Net), was introduced ... -
Business processes alignment for an effective e-government implementation: a case study of a Provincial Government in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)The purpose of the research case study was to assess the current state of alignment of business processes to Provincial Strategic Goals (PSGs) and services in the Provincial Government and to identify the way to align ... -
Communicating for development using social media: A case study of e-inclusion intermediaries in under-resourced communities
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)South Africa is committed to accelerating the roll-out of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support development at all levels. E-inclusion intermediaries (e-IIs) are used in the country to bridge the ... -
Competencies for successful use of social online simulation games within organisational leadership development
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)The humble Pong arcade game at the corner store ignited a fundamental culture shift in the 1970s and it is increasingly gaining momentum. A generation of gamers is already permeating organisations. The socio-cultural ... -
Determinants for the acceptance and use of mobile health applications: Diabetic patients in the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2019)The increased pervasiveness of information communication and technology and increasing internet access creates anticipation for how contemporary technologies can address critical developmental problems. Non-communicable ... -
The e ect of mobile BI on organisational managerial decision-making
(University of Western Cape, 2014)Managerial decision-making has always involved the use of numerous distinct information resources. Modern managerial decision-making processes require a wealth of information that is enhanced and transformed into knowledge ... -
E-skills and employability : a Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) curriculum perspective
(University of the Western cape, 2015)The high rate of youth unemployment is a global phenomenon and a worrying factor. This contradicted the opportunity presented by the ICT sector, which requires e-skills, particularly e-literacy/or digital literacy skills ... -
eLearning adoption in Eastern and Southern African higher education institutions
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This research was undertaken to propose a model for eLearning adoption in Higher Education in Africa and to identify and empirically test measures to assess the model. The model identified eLearning, individual and ... -
Electronic patient record (EPR) system in South Africa : information, storage, retrieval and share amongst clinicians
(University of the Western cape, 2016)A phenomenological philosophy underlies this research study which attempts to understand clinicians’ perception and understanding of an electronic patient record (EPR) system currently operational at a hospital in the ... -
Enhancing the consumers' satisfaction using social media analytics within the financial industry of South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)Due to the pressures of increased competition from different banks, both globally and internationally, financial institutions have made a strategic decision to incorporate Social Media (SM) and subsequently Social Media ... -
Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a governance tool to reduce application duplication study of a duplication: a case South African Provincial Government
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)The aim of this study is to investigate why the implementation of Enterprise Architecture (EA)in the Provincial Government of the Western Cape (PGWC)adopted in 2006,failed to be ineffective to address application duplication. -
Evaluating a masters programme in health information management
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The use of information, as well as the volume thereof, has grown extensively over time, and is, arguably, the most fundamental resource for informed decision-making in most organisations (Nath, 2017). In order to understand ... -
Evaluating a masters programme in health information management
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)Health Information Management (HIM) is an essential health administration component for the organising, coordinating and distribution of health related information, for the benefit of all its recipients. HIM professionals ... -
Evaluating user satisfaction of university administration systems in the South African context
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)nformation Systems evaluation (ISE) is an area of research that has been conducted in depth across various contexts in relation to all phases of the systems development life cycle. In practice though, ISE is an often-overlooked ... -
An examination of the e-Competence requirements of potential information systems graduate employers in the Western Cape and the information systems curriculum at University X
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Knowledge, skills and competences (KSC) are regarded as the new global currency of the 21st century, without which a country’s investments in other resources will collapse. These strategic skills and competences, which are ... -
Exploration of the underlying causes of high waiting times at a community health centre in Cape Town, South Africa
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)At public sector health facilities in Cape Town, South Africa, patients experience very high waiting times, with a medium waiting time of 3 hours which prevailed at the study facility being common. So the question arose ... -
Exploring the access, usage and perceptions of ICT of women in marginalised communities in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)The experiences and perceptions of ICT access and usage by women in marginalised South African communities is sorely under researched. Where information from a gender-based perspective reflecting potential digital gender ...
