10 articles in this issue
N. Faull,P.J. Fleming,M. Bourne
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Companies sometimes fail to take effective action even when they know what they should do. Recent research shows that this surprising situation is more common than one would expect. How can the track record of ... see more
M.R. De Vries
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Information system development methodologies have been applied by numerous organisations since the mid-1980s in an attempt to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of designing and developing new information sy... see more
S.A. Oke
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Research on condition-based maintenance (CBM) spans disciplines and introduces a wide range of concepts. On the basis of statistical analysis of the papers published in major maintenance-related journals, the ... see more
J.L. Jooste,D.C. Page
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There has been an emphasis shift from maintenance management towards asset management, where the focus is on reliable and operational equipment and on effective assets at optimum life-cycle costs. A challenge in t... see more
A.J. Buys,L.M.M. Malebo
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: TSouth Africa has experienced extraordinarily rapid growth in the cellular communications industry, with subscriber numbers growing from zero to 5,3 million in the first six years since its introduction in 1994. ... see more
D.K. Kohlmeyer,J.K. Visser
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A number of project management and project risk management processes have been developed by various researchers, consultants and project managers. Most project managers apply some project management process that ... see more
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Introduced several decades ago, productivity has rapidly developed into a powerful and versatile tool for both service and manufacturing sectors. Service represents the largest and fastest growing sector of develo... see more
V.S.S. Yadavalli,C. de W. Van Schoor
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A model of a perishable product inventory system operating in a random environment is studied. For the sake of simplicity, the stochastic environment is considered to alternate randomly over time between two state... see more
D.G. Conradie,J.W. Joubert
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Operations Research is perceived to be on the verge of demise as a decision support tool in industry. However, this is not true, since the relevancy and interdisciplinary nature of Operations Research makes it ... see more
E.J. Vanderperre,V.S.S. Yadavalli,S.S. Makhanov
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Gavers parallel system (and its variants) has received considerable attention in the literature. The Laplace-transform (LT) of the survival function, corresponding to the underlying systems, has been derived by various (a... see more