Browsing by Subject "ECM"

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    Evaluating the success of the Western Cape Provincial Treasury MyContent Central Repository in Cape Town, South Africa
    (2026) Netshisaulu, Murunwa; Higgs, Richard
    The era of digital technologies necessitates that organisations leverage the capabilities of Enterprise Content Management Systems solutions for the efficient management and preservation of digital content. However, a review of the literature shows that users are reluctant to adopt ECM system solutions, which hampers the digital transformation agenda. The study aimed to supplement the WCG ECM system post-implementation evaluations at the site of study by gathering insight regarding the impediments to the adoption of the WCG ECM system. Specifically, to understand the key adoption factors that influence the adoption of the WCG ECM system at the provincial department level, the key factors that impede the adoption of the WCG ECM system, the alternative systems users are adopting to manage official electronic records, and their reasons for doing so. Guided by the Delone and McLean Information Success model and adopting the multi-method approach and purposive sampling technique, the study collected data using a questionnaire and interviews with employees at the Western Cape Provincial Treasury programme level. The study affirms that the ECM system is embedded in the organisational ecosystem. However, training, ease of use and legacy systems impede user uptake, which drives users to seek alternatives to bridge system shortfalls. As ECM systems preserve the institutional memory of the organisational ecosystem, the adoption issues compromise the integrity of information assets as digital content is segmented across multiple platforms, which goes against the one-system objective. The study recommends that addressing the ECM adoption problem not only entails strengthening training interventions and management support but also necessitates that the use of legacy and alternative systems be reviewed, and evaluation tools and organisational autonomy be a key part of the ECM system agenda. Therefore, future research can explore the influence of the authoritative agency DCAS on ECM user adoption at the WCG.
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    Exploring the association between gene sequence polymorphisms within the angiogenesis and extracellular matrix regulatory pathways and shoulder pain and disability following breast cancer treatment
    (2025) Mafu, Trevor; Shamley, Delva; September, Alison
    Shoulder pain and disability are common sequelae of breast cancer treatment in women, with an understated negative impact on the quality of life of affected individuals and a poorly characterised aetiology. A better understanding of the aetiology of shoulder pain and disability in breast cancer survivors is urgent to develop and/or integrate effective treatments to mitigate the related reduction in quality of life– this is especially important given the increasing cancer survivorship in societies such as in South Africa where a high percentage of households are female-headed and a resource-based public healthcare system is used by the majority. Previous studies have explored treatment-related and patient-related factors that modulate risk of upper-limb impairments in breast cancer survivors, including shoulder pain and disability. However, there is a paucity of relevant studies on key genetic factors. Genetic factors within angiogenesis-related signalling and extracellular matrix (ECM) regulating pathways have been implicated in non-cancer-related studies of soft tissue conditions of the shoulder that are associated with pain and display movement dysfunction similar to that seen in breast cancer post-treatment shoulder morbidity. It is largely unknown whether or not key factors within the angiogenesis-related and ECM-regulating signalling pathways may modulate risk of shoulder pain and disability in breast cancer survivors.