scholarly journals South African farmers' needs of agricultural data

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 316-331
Author(s):  
J. A. Groenewald ◽  
A. Frick
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
South African ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Field Crop ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Producer Prices ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
Employment Data ◽  
Over Time

Data on agriculture are required by decision-makers, including farmers, to solve problems and make business decisions. The needs of decision-makers have changed over time. Since information systems are designed to aid decisionmakers, their needs should be determined. A mail survey among farmers indicated that they are chiefly interested in information regarding producer prices, prices of field crop inputs and statistics on imports and exports of livestock products. There is also interest in employment data and statistics on economic, institutional and infrastructural matters.

Adoption of Cloud Computing in Firms to Enable Software as a Service

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-37
Author(s):  
Wayne M. Gilleo ◽  
Mary Lind
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Software As A Service ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Marketing Effort ◽  
Web Browser ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Use Factors ◽  
Over Time

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a subset of cloud computing that provides information systems functionality through a web browser. Organizations that adopt SaaS can receive value over time if they continue to use the SaaS solution after implementation. This study analyzed the extent to which SaaS adoption and continued use factors affect the continued use of SaaS in organizations. The research can help organizations maximize the value of SaaS by identifying success factors for continued use. The study determined the extent to which the independent factors of Rapport, Responsiveness, Reliability, Features, Security, Flexibility, and Marketing Effort affected the dependent variable of the decision makers' intent to continue use of SaaS within their organization.

scholarly journals The strategic development of physiotherapy in South Africa paper 2: Mapping strategy - critical choices over 30 years

2001 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Bowerbank
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
African Society ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
South African Society ◽  
Mapping Strategy ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
Over Time

This paper demonstrates an unusual approach to trace decision makers’ interpretations over time as they attempt to understand environmental events. The paper adopts an evolutionary perspective and methodologically, demonstrates a way of tracing changes in cause maps over time from available documents and statements. Arguments are offered for the usage of such data to infer cognitive processes. The South African Society of Physiotherapy is the subject of study.

scholarly journals Comparative Study of Competitive Intelligence Practices between Two Retail Banks in Brazil and South Africa

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. A. Du Toit
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
South African ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Mail Survey ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Operational Risks ◽  
Retail Banks ◽  
E Mail

Using competitive intelligence (CI) can help developing countries to increase their competitiveness. This paper compares the CI activities between two retail banks in Brazil and South Africa. An e-mail survey in a sample of 2550 employees in a retail bank in Brazil and 847 employees in a retail bank in South Africa was carried out in which CI practices were measured. Respondents in both countries were not very effective to conduct effective CI analysis. Respondents from Brazil consider information on operational risks as the most important while for South African respondents the most important information was on changing regulatory requirements. Although there is a culture of competitiveness in both organizations, it is recommended that if they want to compete effectively in the global economy, they should create CI awareness by organizing CI training sessions for employees.

scholarly journals Private hospital expenditure and relation to utilisation: Observations from the data

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marine Erasmus ◽  
Helen Kean
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Older People ◽  
South African ◽  
Market Share ◽  
Private Hospital ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Detailed Understanding ◽  
Hospital Market ◽  
Hospital Expenditure ◽  
Over Time

Background: This study contributes to the detailed understanding of the drivers of medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals in South Africa over 2006–2014. This is important in the context of various regulatory reforms that are being considered at present. Aim: The aim is to provide an updated analysis and description of the drivers of medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals in South Africa. Setting: Private hospital market, South Africa. Methods: Data from the three largest private hospital groups – which account for approximately 70% of the South African private hospital market share – are collected, aggregated and analysed. This study uses targeted descriptive and exploratory analyses, relying on a residual approach to hospital expenditure. Results: It is found that over time medical scheme beneficiaries, on average, are being admitted to private hospitals more frequently, as well as staying in hospital for longer during each admission. The data also indicate that over time older people are being admitted to hospital more often. Conclusion: This study’s findings contradict previous assertions that it is only prices driving increased medical scheme expenditure on private hospitals.

Designing Accounting Information Systems for Primary Cash Receipts and Expenditures in Open ERP-based Retail Units (ODOO)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Ivana Larasati Putri Navalina ◽  
Ludfi Djajanto ◽  
Ari Kamayanti
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Customer Satisfaction ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
Industrial Technology ◽  
Accounting Information Systems ◽  
Business People ◽  
Technology Revolution ◽  
Over Time

Over time, this type of cooperative business slowly begins to lose its existencedue to increasingly fierce business competition. This is because the role ofcooperatives, which is identical to the provision of basic foodstuffs for theneeds of the community, has now been taken over by the existence ofsupermarkets both in cities and in the regions. This is due to the influence ofthe industrial technology revolution 4.0 which requires business people tocontinue to be able to improve services and offer technology-basedconvenience so that it has an impact on customer satisfaction. This literaturereview aims to describe the role of the use of information technology systemsfor accounting for primary cash receipts and disbursements in cooperatives.

Implementing Interactive Multimedia Training

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (04) ◽  
pp. 264-268
Author(s):  
Ralph E. Matlack ◽  
Edward R. Matlack
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Multimedia ◽  
Interactive Media ◽  
Corporate Training ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Business Decisions ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Relevant Factors

This paper provides a brief overview of the role of interactive multimedia (IM) in corporate training, and will discuss the relevant factors in making wise business decisions regarding the implementation of interactive multimedia within U.S. shipyards. Despite the numerous studies and reports citing the efficiencies of delivering instructions in a multisensory format via a computer, shipyards have been slow to implement this technology into their business practices. The reasons for this are twofold: first, the technology is still viewed as nascent and unproven, and second, the business benefits are not well understood by decision-makers. This paper focuses on understanding the business benefits of implementing interactive multimedia in a shipyard environment. Case studies and success stories are referenced for the purpose of understanding how IM training works within the shipyard The main thrust of discussion is towards how to properly analyze the expected return on investment and strategy for implementation of interactive media within a typical shipyard.

The Earliest South African Hominids

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-143
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Clarke ◽  
Travis Rayne Pickering ◽  
Jason L. Heaton ◽  
Kathleen Kuman
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Taxonomic Assignment ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

The earliest South African hominids (humans and their ancestral kin) belong to the genera Australopithecus, Paranthropus, and Homo, with the oldest being a ca. 3.67 million-year-old nearly complete skeleton of Australopithecus (StW 573) from Sterkfontein Caves. This skeleton has provided, for the first time in almost a century of research, the full anatomy of an Australopithecus individual with indisputably associated skull and postcranial bones that give complete limb lengths. The three genera are also found in East Africa, but scholars have disagreed on the taxonomic assignment for some fossils owing to historical preconceptions. Here we focus on the South African representatives to help clarify these debates. The uncovering of the StW 573 skeleton in situ revealed significant clues concerning events that had affected it over time and demonstrated that the associated stalagmite flowstones cannot provide direct dating of the fossil, as they are infillings of voids caused by postdepositional collapse.

Thinking Systemically About Security and Resilience in an Era of Cybered Conflict

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Peter Dombrowski ◽  
Chris C. Demchak
Keyword(s):  
International System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Peace And War ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Civil Societies

The international system now depends on cyberspace, a global ‘substrate' of massive, complex, insecurely designed networks providing systemic advantages to masses of predators and adversaries. States today face an unprecedented spectrum of ‘cybered conflict' between peace and war with growing existential implications. Their piecemeal searches for defensible jurisdictions are creating a rising Cyber Westphalian world crisscrossed with gateways, holes, national cyber forces, and often partial, uncoordinated, or vague strategies. Over time, the world will have robust, midlevel, and poor cyber powers, with the first tier coercing the others and dominating the rules of exchange. Democratic civil societies are not guaranteed to be robust. For acceptable future societal well-being in a deceptive and opaque cybered world, decision-makers need a systemic approach based on the logic of complex socio-technical-economic systems (STES) to create the systemic resilience and disruption capacities across shareable (across allies/sectors) secure architectures essential to becoming a robust cyber power, which is the focus of this chapter.

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