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Responsiveness of a South African university to the country’s agenda for entrepreneurial universities

  • Authors: Khumalo, Sithembiso , Du Plessis, Tanya
  • Date: 2017
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/243885 , uj:25213 , Citation: Khumalo, S. & Du Plessis, T. 2017. Responsiveness of a South African university to the country’s agenda for entrepreneurial universities. Africa Research Group Conference, 29-31 August 2017.
  • Description: Abstract: One of the focus areas of the South African National Development Plan is entrepreneurial universities’ role of developing South African youth’s ownership of their future financial viability. In this context, ownership refers to sense of duty to participate in becoming skilled citizens that contribute towards the country’s economy. Objective: In this paper, the research objective is aligned to the first phase of an intervention development study. The objective of the study (in progress) is to develop an intervention and measure how changes to the information and knowledge management curriculum design impact on students’ entrepreneurial awareness of commercialisation processes and procedures. Method: This paper presents the findings of a group level analysis that was conducted by examining the current state of first year information and knowledge management students’ perception and curriculum-fit in terms of their perception of self as ideators and knowledge of the commercialisation cycle. The first phase consisted of literature review and qualitative and quantitative data collection by means of a questionnaire. The results form part of the gap analysis phase of intervention research design...
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SharePoint as enabler for collaboration and efficient project knowledge sharing

An intranet-enabled platform to improve knowledge sharing collaboration and content management

  • Authors: Khumalo, Sithembiso
  • Date: 2016
  • Subjects: Knowledge management , Microsoft SharePoint (Electronic resource) , Edcon Limited Group (Firm : South Africa)
  • Language: English
  • Type: Masters (Thesis)
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/82557 , uj:18972
  • Description: Abstract: The full benefit of SharePoint as a Web application for content management, knowledge sharing and collaboration in support of meeting business objectives is not fully realised at Edcon. The implementation of SharePoint within Edcon gives a clear indication that the organisation recognises its potential, however, the requirement for Edcon to determine whether the implementation of SharePoint meets their users’ needs in terms of knowledge sharing, collaboration and content management needed to be investigated within Edcon Limited Group. The objectives of the study were to determine how SharePoint enables Edcon to share knowledge, collaborate and manage its content; to investigate the value brought by SharePoint within Edcon and to establish the process for improving the use of SharePoint within Edcon. The main research question determined how the current use of Microsoft SharePoint at Edcon addressed the users’ needs for knowledge sharing, collaboration and content management. The study therefore sought to determine how SharePoint can enable Edcon to improve knowledge sharing, collaboration and content management in order to effectively achieve organisational goals. Intepretivism was used for this study because it aims to interpret the different perspectives of Edcon SharePoint users with regards to their use of the web enabled platform. The ideal sample on whom this research was conducted was two employees of Edcon responsible for the development of SharePoint in the organisation. They helped determine if the implementation of SharePoint was developed considering the users’ needs and to also find out how SharePoint was... , M.Phil. (Information Management)
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The need for innovation and commercialisation as part of university curriculum design

  • Authors: Khumalo, Sithembiso
  • Date: 2018
  • Subjects: Innovation for commercialisation , University curriculum , Strategic information management principles
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/274107 , uj:29228 , Citation: Khumalo, S. 2018. The need for innovation and commercialisation as part of university curriculum design.
  • Description: Abstract: Universities are obligated to play a role in developing and nurturing students, preparing them to venture into the real corporate world. Innovation, commercialisation are part of the corporate world, therefore it is important to understand if students would prefer Innovation and Commercialisation to be taught as part of their curriculum. To answer this question, the research conducted was inherently focused on 3rd year IKM students. Using descriptive statistics with frequency analysis, 134 questionnaires were handed out to the 3rd years to obtain and analyse the overall view of how they personally perceive Innovation and Commercialisation being part of their university curriculum. IKM honours students were also included, using semi-structured interviews and content analysis, 5 interviews were conducted to gain an idea of how beneficial the honours students felt it would be and whether they would have chosen it themselves. The IKM honours students reflected on the IKM principles that they felt would best suit innovation and commercialisation. The principles listed were the “Keep It Short and Simple (Kiss)” principle, the “Figure It out (FIO)” principle, the PAERETO principle, and the business canvas. With the data gathered, it was discovered that the majority of the 3rd year students felt there was a need for Innovation and Commercialisation to be formally included as part of the university curriculum...
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Developing training material for novice information portal users

  • Authors: Khumalo, Sithembiso , Magoma, Tshepo
  • Date: 2017
  • Subjects: Knowledge portals , Training material , Novice users
  • Language: English
  • Type: Conference proceedings
  • Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10210/244376 , uj:25269 , Citation: Khumalo, S. & Magoma, T. 2017. Developing training material for novice information portal users.
  • Description: Abstract: Knowledge portals are critical applications that are often used in different forms of organisations, like educational institutions, where generation and consumption of information and knowledge are among their main activities. Objective: This project aims to determine what training material will be suitable to engage and support the learning of novice knowledge portal users. Method: The research used a pre-test and a post-test as a sample method. Both the pre-test and post-test consisted of 57 first year information portals students. The data collection instrument for this project was a pre-test, intervention, and a post-test. The data analysis tools used for the research was Atlas.ti and content analysis which are reliable research software tools. As such, a pre-test was written to determine what training material will be suitable to engage and support the learning of novice knowledge portal users. This pre-test was also used to determine the knowledge before the intervention. Furthermore, the post-test was also used to ascertain the effectiveness of the training material...
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An investigation of a South African strategic state office records management alignment with international standard operating (ISO) : a work in progress

Affordability of business intelligence tools suitable for SMEs’ decision-making

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