Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has transformed society at large, with the
Internet and World Wide Web (WWW) revolutionising the access, flow and use of information
within the societal context. For organisations to maintain and increase their competitive stance
within the market, attention should be focused on how the information is structured within the
organisational context.
Considering information may be regarded as the catalysts of change within the economy, the
objective of this research is to determine how important the architecture of information is to
organisations operating in South Africa. The research design utilised to answer the question is
based on a pragmatic ontological stance. Building onto the ontological stance, the research
employs an abductive epistemological assumption to rationalise the nature of knowledge...