...A.C. Strauss; A.S.A. du Toit Purpose South Africa as a country continues to rank low in the world of competitiveness. It is the aim of this paper to focus on the need for South African organisations to perceive competitive intelligence (CI) as one of the most important tools to improve...

... insight into the growth of KM in industry groupings over a five‐year period. The authors apply an inventory developed by Kruger and Snyman to a set of 86 organisations distributed over nine economic sectors in South Africa. In total 434 employees are interviewed over three group levels (operational...

... technological change. The last decades have seen the introduction of wireless communication, personal computers, the Internet and biotechnology. CI in South Africa emerged from the business sector. CI is enjoying increased prominence but is not yet at a level of that in countries such as the US...

... and recommendations are made. In South Africa, data of exporting companies were gathered from two sources, namely: 1. the Kompass Southern African database (from Reed Business Southern Africa); 2. the directors/CEOs of the respective Export Council (supported by Trade and Industry Southern...

...Peter K.J. Tobin; Retha Snyman Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on research conducted into the use of stories and storytelling to share knowledge in a large mining company based in South Africa. The paper shows how the use of oral methods combined with other media can be used...

... was used with a sample of 530 registered professional nurses in South Africa. Findings A knowledge‐sharing questionnaire was developed that yielded a high reliability coefficient. A significant negative relationship was found between knowledge sharing behaviour and turnover intentions. Furthermore...

..., either by force or law, or by natural progression. The purpose of this paper is to address this issue. Design/methodology/approach Being in the fortunate position of working for a culturally diversified multinational organisation based in South Africa, one of the authors was able to determine...

... not banking online. Potential customers wanted guaranteed safety and loyalty rewards to get them to bank online. Internet banking has the potential to grow amongst tertiary institution employees. Internet Banking South Africa Tertiary education Virtual banking Payments © Emerald Group...

...D.B. Schwikkard; A.S.A. du Toit This paper presents the findings of a knowledge audit conducted to determine the knowledge requirements of a large service‐based enterprise in South Africa. The objective of the knowledge audit was to identify and describe the current and future knowledge...

... areas; academic libraries at universities and technikons; and specialised information centres. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Cataloguing Computer based training Distance learning Training South Africa This article reports on the utilisation of an integrated training resource...

... the following research questions: Core business processes with regard to the incorporated law firm in South Africa were identified with the provision of legislative and judicial material for legal practitioners. The function of the information services in this environment was to create reliable systems...

... MCB UP Limited 2002 Participative action research Information Quality of working life Ethnic groups Women South Africa The search for a new perspective can in many ways also be tied to the ideas of dependency theorists. Where the modernisation perspective regards the causes...

... opportunities and requirements for the position of information and knowledge managers was extracted from job advertisements,which appeared in the three weekly national newspapers with the highest circulation figures in South Africa. The findings revealed that employers seem to have a problem indefining...