• Determining the upper economic limit of wind fleets 

  Walwyn, David Richard; Stephens, Anthony D. (South African Institution of Mechanical Engineering, 2024-08-16)

  Wind fleets have become significant energy sources within national grids. However, future expansion of wind fleet capacity may result in little incremental benefit due to the inability of present grid architectures to ...
• Draw to a close : inventor triad dynamics and invention quality 

  Nan, Ding; Markus, Arjan; Oerlemans, Leon A.G. (Routledge, 2025-07)

  Instead of comparing open and closed triads as static phenomena, this study examines how closure dynamics among inventors impact the extent to which inventors generate high-quality inventions at the triad level. Combining ...
• Soft skills and learning methods for 21st-century project management 

  Kearney, Jason; Bond-Barnard, Taryn; Chugh, Ritesh (SciKA, 2024)

  This article addresses a prominent gap in the literature by investigating the crucial soft skills required by project management students, graduates, and new practitioners entering the contemporary workforce. The literature ...
• An adaptive organisational leadership framework through systems thinking 

  Abukalusa, Khalid; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Emerald, 2025)

  PURPOSE : The purpose of this study is to present an adaptive organisational leadership framework using systems thinking (ST) to address challenges within volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA) environments. ...
• Lean construction : implementing the last planner system on mining projects 

  Govindasamy, T.; Bekker, M.C. (Michiel Christiaan) (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2024-01)

  The potential benefits of implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) on mining infrastructure projects were explored through two case studies in the South African mining industry. The first part of the study involved ...
• Exploring first-year engineering student perceptions of peer-led study groups in a Global South context 

  Versfeld, Jessica; Vinson, Caitlin (JSAA Editors in collaboration with University of Pretoria, 2024-07)

  The purpose of the study is to explore the advantages of study groups for first-year engineering students in a challenged Global South context. The research aims to explore how the support and resources provided by the ...
• A qualitative study illustrating factors that enable and constrain academic advising practices in a Global South context 

  Versfeld, Jessica; Mapaling, Curwyn (Frontiers Media, 2024-10)

  INTRODUCTION: Academic advising plays a crucial role in South African higher education, especially considering the country’s diverse student population, historical injustices, and socio-economic inequalities. However, ...
• The relationship between PMO support functions and project management maturity levels : a case study of a South African petrochemical company 

  Bezuidenhout, A.; Steyn, Herman; Pretorius, Suzaan (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2024-08-30)

  This paper identifies the essential support functions of project management offices (PMO) for various organisational project management maturity (OPMM) levels. A case study of a South African petrochemical company compares ...
• Project management maturity and its impact on perceived project success : a case study 

  Burger, E.; Pretorius, Suzaan; Steyn, Herman (Southern African Institute for Industrial Engineering, 2024-08-30)

  A notion exists that organisations with higher levels of project management maturity execute projects more effectively and efficiently and so have a higher probability of achieving project success. This paper reports on a ...
• The reshaping of curriculum transformation to address the 21st-century skill sets and employment prospects during the Fourth Industrial Revolution era : a case of the South Africa TVET colleges 

  Kana, Nomso; Letaba, Tshotleho Petrus (Stellenbosch University, 2024)

  This research explores the employability of Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) college graduates in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) era in South Africa. It examines the role of TVET lecturers in ...
• Temporal characterization of land use change and land-scape processes in informal settlements in the City of Cape Town, South Africa 

  Okoye, Perpetua Ifeoma; Lalk, Jorg (CONSAS Conference, 2024-07)

  This study conducted a Land Use Change (LUC) analysis on informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa, using bi-temporal steps, S1 (2010) and S2 (2016), to characterize land use (LU) conversions and landscape processes ...
• Feature guided training and rotational standardization for the morphological classification of radio galaxies 

  Brand, Kevin; Grobler, Trienko L.; Kleynhans, Waldo; Vaccari, Mattia; Prescott, Matthew; Becker, Burger (Oxford University Press, 2023-04)

  State-of-the-art radio observatories produce large amounts of data which can be used to study the properties of radio galaxies. However, with this rapid increase in data volume, it has become unrealistic to manually process ...
• Draw to a close : inventor triad dynamics and invention quality 

  Nan, Ding; Markus, Arjan; Oerlemans, Leon A.G. (Routledge, 2024)

  Instead of comparing open and closed triads as static phenomena, this study examines how closure dynamics among inventors impact the extent to which inventors generate high-quality inventions at the triad level. Combining ...
• Institutionalizing foresight in science, technology, and innovation in sub-Saharan Africa 

  Ouma-Mugabe, John; Botha, Anthon; Letaba, Petrus (Wiley, 2024-06)

  MOTIVATION : Foresight is increasingly being institutionalized and used in science, technology and innovation (STI) policy processes around the world. Foresight is a toolbox to help decision-makers generate intelligence ...
• A framework for developing systems engineering management for process plant acquisition projects 

  Moodley, Denver; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Wiley, 2025-01)

  South Africa has a history of poor performance on process plant acquisition projects in the process industry that apply chemical processes within large processing facilities to convert raw materials such as crude oil into ...
• Deficiencies in the traditional budgeting process cause the negative behaviour of budgetary slacking 

  Ramlall, Rishen; Grobbelaar, Schalk (AOSIS, 2024-06)

  PURPOSE : This study delves into the inadequacies of the traditional budgeting process and their role in instigating budgetary slacking behaviour within organisations. It aims to unveil the underlying mechanisms behind ...
• Startups’ innovation programmes : a food industry versus university cases 

  Govender, Elisha A.; Van der Lingen, Elma (AOSIS, 2024-07)

  BACKGROUND: Collaborations with external partners such as startups have been shown to bring agile and consumer-centric advantages to businesses to allow for future-proofing benefits as well as improve the rankings of ...
• Application of cognitive work analysis in support of systems engineering of a socio-technical system 

  Van den Heever, Henk; Oosthuizen, Rudolph (Inderscience, 2024-01)

  This paper presents a validation workflow to support system requirements analysis. Systems engineering supports the development of socio-technical systems. However, the traditional systems engineering approach of reducing ...
• Value creation in the African cement market : a model and validation 

  Meyer, Johan Andries Muller; Pretorius, Leon (JCMAN, 2023)

  PURPOSE OF THE STUDY : This research sets out to develop a systems-thinking-based conceptual model that can be used by the cement service industry to market its products and services in Africa; to review the literature to ...
• Single versus multiple project teams and individual performance : do they ask for different leadership behaviors? 

  Kenda, Renata; Meslec, Nicoleta; Oerlemans, Leon A.G. (Elsevier, 2024-02)

  Multiple project team membership is a prevalent phenomenon in modern organizational life. However, is any leadership behavior in such a setting beneficial to individual team members' performance? Our study suggests that ...

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