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Technology plays an important role in company competitiveness and, like any other sources of competition, needs to be managed from a strategic point of view. Therefore, technology is integral to how it is selected and prioritized to support the company strategic objective. The information characteristics for strategic decisions are ad hoc, forward looking, external and wide scoped. In addition, new...
Graduate engineers in South Africa are expected to operate as professional engineers within a time-frame of approximately 3 years after graduation; however they do not achieve this. It is vital that engineers are able to operate at the expected levels of a professional engineer in the required time to promote the growth of the engineering sector. An industry survey was used to investigate the trends...
A reduction in the in-service life spans of Gauteng roadways, have been seen due to increases in the formation and recurrence of potholes and patch repair failures. With much attention being focused on the technical causes, human factors adding to this problem have not received the attention it requires resulting in increased cost and risk to road users and asset owners. With roadway maintenance and...
The Engineering Management degree at master's level has been taught at a South African higher education institution for more than 20 years. The student enrollment numbers have seen significant growth over the last decade, with a year-on-year growth varying from 20% to 39% each year. The coursework master's program consists of a number of lectured modules and a research component which accounts for...
South Africa's increasing cost of industrial energy has recently caused the country to be ranked among the top five countries in the world with the most expensive industrial electricity tariffs. For various reasons, energy is often not optimally used in industry. According to Zavanella and Zanoni (2009), there has been a growing interest in more rational and responsible consumption of energy, especially...
Prototyping of subsystem and system components is most often thought of as a development task. This paper shows the usefulness of prototyping as an activity in the requirements elicitation process, prior to any development activities. It is approached from the field of engineering and technology management. It uses the Requirements Engineering approach to identify tools and methods for the development...
The requirements engineering process is typically executed, irrespective of the process model chosen, for the final commercially viable system. The system requirements generated are for a system deployed and used in its final form and function. However, the first prototype that is generated is typically representative of a minimum viable technology, and represents a degraded set of the initial system...
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