Cornelis Cristo van Waveren

Cornelis Cristo van Waveren
University of Pretoria | UP · Department of Engineering and Technology Management

Doctor of Engineering

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Purpose – Organizations are oriented toward accumulating and applying knowledge to create economic value and competitive advantage. Moreover, knowledge transfer (KT) between projects is a source of competitive advantage for Project-Based Organizations (PBOs). Project Management Offices (PMOs) play both a facilitating and a supporting role in the tr...
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The execution of operational improvement projects can create new knowledge that can be used to contribute to the success of future projects. A paradox exists, in that new knowledge is seldom transferred to future projects, and so the associated value-adding opportunities are lost. The objectives of this study are to determine whether lessons learne...
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Skills and knowledge gaps between senior and junior staff is prevalent in engineering projects. This study aimed to identify the factors that affect knowledge transfer and methods to retain transferred knowledge between senior and junior staff in the South African engineering environment. Although several studies have examined the factors that infl...
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An investigation of sponsor attributes on six megaproject cases. Willem Louw, Herman Steyn, Jan Wium, Wim Gevers Purpose – Executive sponsors play a significant role in the success of megaprojects which, in turn, affect national economies and millions of people. However, the literature on the requisite attributes of project sponsors on megaproje...
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Purpose This article describes advances in the study of knowledge transfer (KT) in project-based organizations (PBOs). Project management offices (PMOs) have both a moderation role and a mediation role to play in KT between projects. In order to improve KT between projects, this paper explores the mediation role of the PMO in the transfer of knowle...
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Before any acquired knowledge is used or adds value to the receiving project (members), it must be accepted by its recipients leading to an increase in the recipients' positive attitudes towards and intended use of the acquired knowledge. To be willing to accept knowledge it must have value and be easy to use as perceived by the receiving project's...
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A conceptual model for the role of a project management office (PMO) in improving the usability of knowledge that is transferred between projects is proposed, and a method to investigate the role of PMOs in knowledge transfer is validated. The case of a PMO in a multinational engineering company was selected, and 24 codes within three themes were i...
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The desire to gain knowledge about the quality and timing of construction projects delivered to clients has become an increased focus point in the field of construction management. Clients have expectations that are often based on their assumptions about the validity of making the learning curve theory applicable to construction projects. This rese...
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Projects are unique, temporary structures that produce unique knowledge. For organisations to gain competitive advantage, this knowledge needs to be transferred effectively between projects. Knowledge transfer across projects is thus an important and decisive competitive factor. However, project teams typically focus on short-term project goals, an...
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Background: The complex, unique and temporary nature of projects makes project-to-project knowledge transfer challenging and has attracted attention from both practitioners and academic scholars. This challenging nature of project-to-project knowledge transfer led to the proliferation of a host of tools and instruments (so-called knowledge transfer...
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Knowledge dissemination, as part of the knowledge exchange process, is particularly challenging in any project environment due to the temporary nature of projects. Although several studies in the earlier literature studied the factors that influence knowledge exchange, very few examined them from the 'knowledge push' perspective. This study aims, t...
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The South African Construction Industry (SACI) needs to identify the barriers affecting post-project learning as well as identify their existing good practices to sustain themselves in the global market place. Much research exists on barriers to effective post-project learning in the construction industry of developed and other developing countries...
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This paper examines mechanisms to use lessons learned on individual projects within an organisation. A Delphi study highlighted the organisation’s responsibility for incorporating knowledge from projects into a project management methodology. Knowledge from a project should be transferred through a centralised knowledge management function that sho...
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The Project Management Office (PMO) has been associated with organisational project management competence. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence to support this perception. This study examines the relationship of PMO maturity and the nine knowledge areas that describe Organisational Project Management (OPM) by collecting data from 129 PMO...
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Knowledge transfers across projects in Project-Based Organizations (PBOs) are more complex and challenging than in the permanent organizational context due to the temporary nature of project teams in which team members do not see capturing and transferring across projects as important for long term benefits to the organization. Although knowledge t...
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Product quality has become one of the most important factors for consideration by manufacturing environments due to the increasingly competitive global market. This is especially true for organizations manufacturing a non-repairable product as the cost of warranty claims can be financially considerable and cause rapid loss of market share due to lo...
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Projects that fail, for whatever reason, can impact negatively on society, organisations, and other stakeholders. A number of researchers have identified various critical success factors (CSFs) that can influence the outcome and success of a project. This research therefore aims to determine the CSFs that influence various success measures of small...
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Past studies of performance management systems (PMS) have focused more on designing the framework and less on the effect it has on employees. Moreover, employees in developing countries may not be knowledgeable or familiar with PMS. This paper proposes two competing statistical models to examine the roles that supervisor support (SS) has in enginee...
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The Six Sigma deployment methodology is known for its results in operational excellence associated with improved business practices. Organisations worldwide have shown significantly reduced costs and increased profits when successfully deploying Six Sigma. This paper reports a longitudinal study of a set of indicators and success factors for Six Si...
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The success that Lean and Six Sigma deployment has brought to organisations such as General Electric, Toyota, Motorola and AlliedSignal has generated great interest in the business and process improvement circles in recent years. Organisations are training Black Belts with the intention to reintegrate them into line function roles. These Black Belt...
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p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The balance between risk and reward is the very essence of business, and companies take risks in order to generate returns. Eskom, the electricity utility in South Africa, endeavors to construct networks that are reliable and safe for its employees as well as the public. To ensure that product reliability requirements align with...
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The management of a population of centrifugal pumps in the petrochemical industry can be daunting. A popular method for strategically optimizing the maintenance and operation of these centrifugal pumps is to measure the reliability of the whole pump population in terms of Mean-Time-Between-Failures (MTBF). Too often MTBF improvement becomes the foc...
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p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Transnet Freight Rail in South Africa has faced projects delays in its multi-project environment. This study takes South Africa as representative of developing countries, and develops the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) model for multiple projects success, with the goal of expanding the conventional model by adding the demograph...
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Most enterprises are trying to expand their business, hence aiming to increase turnover and profit. The challenge is to win potentially profitable contracts and to “create value” to best serve the needs and expectation of customers and other stakeholders. A second challenge is to establish an ongoing process of “capability and capacity expansion” i...
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p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: There were numerous complaints regarding the quality of building projects performed by the Department of Building and Engineering Services (DBES) in Botswana. This empirical study has two objectives: first, to evaluate participants in DBES projects by using 16 identified factors in the project design phase that may influence the...
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The Six Sigma continuous improvement methodology has been successfully deployed in many organizations on a global basis. This has resulted in significant reductions in cost and increases in revenue as a result of the improvement in operational excellence associated with improved business practices, the removal of variance in systems and processes a...
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There were numerous complaints regarding the quality of building projects ran by the Department of Building and Engineering Services (DBES) in Botswana. The aim of this study is to evaluate participants involving DBES projects by using 16 factors in the project design phase which may influence the quality of building projects. Empirical results sho...
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The South African motor industry has flourished over the past two decades. During these years, many Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) have chosen South Africa as one of the countries to establish their plants. Local vehicle sales are not the driving factor of this large investment in South Africa, as many vehicles are exported to other countr...
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The South African motor industry has flourished over the past two decades. During these years, many original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) have chosen South Africa as one of the countries to establish their plants, but local vehicle sales are not the driving factor of this large investment in South Africa, as many vehicles are exported to other co...
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This article evaluates the influence that quality concepts and tools in a manufacturing environment may have on parameters possibly affecting the future design and development of products in the same company. It attempts to establish how quality results can be utilised to determine the level of quality control tools used, such as Quality Function D...
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Infrastructure assets are aging, therefore ongoing maintenance and renewal of that infrastructure has become much more significant. Sound asset management decisions that are based on a thorough understanding of the modern business context are needed. When it comes to the decision to dispose of assets, managers tend to avoid making the final decisio...
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The development of new and improved management methods for new product development is important. Existing methods suffer from a number of shortcomings, especially their inability to deal with a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data. The objective of this study is to apply decision support techniques (especially Bayesian networks) to the area...
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The development of new and improved management methods for new product development is important. Existing methods suffer from a number of shortcomings, especially their inability to deal with a mixture of quantitative and qualitative data. The objective of this study is to apply decision support techniques (especially Bayesian networks) to the area...
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Implementing a successful quality management system demands a paradigm shift from the traditional management practices (planning, organising, leading and controlling) to a focus on continual improvement. A specific challenge for organisations is to adapt their organisational culture to a quality culture. However, it would appear that cultural issue...
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This research article evaluates the influence from quality concepts and tools in a manufacturing environment on parameters that may affect future design and development of products in the same company. It attempts to establish how quality results can be utilised to determine the level of quality control tools such as quality function deployment and...
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The quality objective of many software organisations is to deliver software products that meet and or exceed customer expectations. The key to achieving this is to capture these expectations at the beginning of the project by clearly defining all quality requirements. The characteristics particularly defined in ISO/IEC 9126-1 (2001) provide the fra...
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Within the South African Electricity Supplier (Eskom) the Outage scheduler working in the National Control department is responsible for sanctioning planned equipment outages on the Interconnected Power System. Currently this decision making process is not quantified. This paper investigates the possibility of quantifying the decision by using deci...
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An academic department at a higher educational institution that wishes to provide a customer focused product or service in a consistent way has to put a prominent and official management system in place. Such a system will bring about synergy between academic and supporting functions, and will also link the different academic and support processes...
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An academic department at a higher educational institution that wishes to provide a customer focused product or service in a consistent way has to put a prominent and official management system in place. Such a system will bring about synergy between academic and supporting functions, and will also link the different academic and support processes...
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Within the South African Electricity Supplier (Eskom) the Outage scheduler working in the National Control department is responsible for sanctioning planned equipment outages on the Interconnected Power System. Currently this decision making process is not quantified. This paper investigates the possibility of quantifying the decision by using deci...
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An academic department at a higher educational institution that wishes to provide a customer focused product or service in a consistent way has to put a more prominent and official management system in place. Such a system will bring about synergy between academic and supporting functions, and will also link the different academic and support proce...
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Within the South African electricity supplier (Eskom) the outage scheduler working in the National Control department is responsible for sanctioning planned equipment outages on the interconnected power system. Currently this decision making process is not quantified. This work investigates the possibility of quantifying the decision by using decis...
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p>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: It is generally agreed that one way for organisations to be competitive in the new global economy is by embracing the principles of Peter Senge’s “The Fifth Discipline” and becoming “learning organisations”. The literature on the nature of learning organisations is extensive, but few of the discussions break through the philosop...
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Multi-axial fatigue situations, as are typical in automotive structures, require reconstruction of operational load conditions by means of a multi-axis servo-hydraulic simulator to enable a realistic durability test. The control of such simulators has traditionally been achieved by using a frequency domain transfer function model of the system, whi...
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South Africa's administration of construction procurement has changed drastically since 2000 when the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) was established. Contractor selection in the past was mainly based on the lowest priced tender only, which often led to project failure due to tender under pricing as the contractors did not have the r...

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