Antoinette Lombard, Director of the e-skills unit at the Vaal University of Technology (VUT), had initiated a skills development and employee engagement project for the Human Resource (HR) Department through offering an e-skills and e-literacy course to the service workers of the University. Service workers included cleaning, gardening, maintenance and electrical workers. After a reasonably …
Dr. ZW Saul, the Head of the Department of African Languages at the University of Fort Hare, was considering the future of a text-to-speech system that converted English text into isiXhosa audio. The system had experienced a successful pilot, but much work remained to be done in taking the project to full implementation and sustainability.
The new CEO of a year, Mymoena Ismail, pondered on how to re-invigorate the once dynamic and highly innovative government entity as part of three integrated government entities. The questions at the top of her mind therefore revolved around how to transform the government agency into an agency that prepared South Africans with the new …
The founders of the Informing Science Institute consider how to ensure that their all-volunteer research and educational institute can be sustained into the future.
The founding dean of the USF College of Pharmacy wonders how technology could be incorporated into the college to further his goal of moving towards “The Pharmacy of the Future”
A CFO worries about cash flow shortages at a college in the Bahamas and how changes to government may endanger the institution.
After the successful launch of a DBA program for working executives, the program’s academic director ponders whether or not there might be an opportunity to create a cybersecurity doctoral program based on the existing program’s research core.
Does it make sense for the University of South Florida to acquire cyber insurance? This case study explores the issues involved and the nature of the cyber insurance product.
How do you design a research journal to publish articles that engage practice? A sample case that was used in the DBA program during the process of developing the Muma Business Review journal.