13 articles in this issue
Corne Schutte
“The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school” - Alice CooperThe journal once again experienced a very successful year, and it is wonderful to start the festive season on this note! It is thus a pleasure to write this ... see more
Dino Petrarolo,Cecil Everson
Distell Group (a listed South African alcoholic beverage company) embarked on a business improvement journey that required a significant change to its supply chain structure and capability, which were inadequate to meet its 2020 strategic ambitions, to im... see more
Sanah Leuta,Marthinus Pretorius
Technology in the banking industry plays a key role in driving strategic business decisions. Technology acquisitions often do not result in optimal technology utilisation as measured by the number of innovations being logged, failure incidents in operatio... see more
Zhaoxi Zhan,Chen Wang,Jeffrey Boon Hui Yap,Shaharudin Samsudin,Hamzah Abdul-Rahman
Poor performance measurement practices in the oil and gas industry can cause project cost overruns, schedule delays, and scope increases. Earned value management, as an integrated project planning and control method measuring cost and schedule performance... see more
Lameck Mugwagwa,Dimiter Dimitrov,Stephen Matope,Igor Yadroitsev
Selective laser melting scanning strategies influence the quality characteristics of parts, such as form accuracy and residual stresses. Previous research on the effect of laser scanning strategy parameters (such as scan vector length) demonstrates that r... see more
Bao Yongyan,Wang Delun,Gao Yuan,Sun Yuan,Zheng Hao
In order to solve the technical evaluation problem of key scientific and technological research and development projects, this article uses the technology evaluation method of entropy weight cloud theory to evaluate the project. The index is selected acco... see more
Arash Mohamadi,Sadalah Ebrahimnejad,Roya Soltani,Mohammad Khalilzadeh
In this study, a new integrated approach is presented to solve the facility layout problem with unequal areas in an open field. This approach includes a two-stage method and a bi-level genetic algorithm. In the first stage of the proposed method, the arra... see more
Harvey Migale,Johann Stimie,Alan Brent
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Jessica Alejandra Ruiz-Ramirez,Diego Felipe Reyes-Cancino,Carlos Julio Arenas-Castro
The paper discusses analytical applications of the business model canvas (BMC) formulated by Osterwalder & Pigneur [1]. From this model, a methodological tool was devised and used as part of an academic research project, in which the categories (blocks) o... see more
Emile Otto Coetzer,P J Vlok
Industry needs quality data, but digital formats increase the risk of lost data quality, implying huge risk. The benefits of data quality are difficult to calculate in order to justify the expense. A survey was developed and validated at an operating asse... see more
Naudé Pieter Scribante,Leon Pretorius,Siebert Benade
This paper presents research relating to the challenges of conducting research in a complex, socio-technical system. The result of this research is that a conventional research approach is fundamentally reactive and does not always produce the desired res... see more
Bongekile Matsenjwa,Sara Grobbelaar,Isabel A Meyer
The success of small-scale farmers in pro-poor value chains is constrained by aspects related to government policies, research and training, community issues, and the quality of existing information and communication technology (ICT) tools. This article d... see more
Andre Luiz Gazoli de Oliveira,Walter Ribeiro da Rocha Junior
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are very important to national economies. In Brazil, the furniture sector has many SMEs that suffer from international competition, especially from Chinese companies. To reduce this difficulty, this study provides... see more