- Title
- Towards identifying how knowledge management concepts may be applied to enhance the tendering process in South African public sector institutions
- Creator
- Kasi, Sizukisa Bridget
- ThesisAdvisor
- Upfold, Chris
- Subject
- Letting of contracts -- South Africa
- Subject
- Knowledge management
- Subject
- Public contracts -- South Africa
- Subject
- Transparency in government -- South Africa
- Date
- 2013
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc
- Identifier
- vital:1150
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007741
- Identifier
- Letting of contracts -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Knowledge management
- Identifier
- Public contracts -- South Africa
- Identifier
- Transparency in government -- South Africa
- Description
- The state of the Tendering Process in South African Government Institutions has become an area of concern in recent years with issues related to transparency, governance and rigid retrospective procedures being cited as impediments to efficiency. In tum, Knowledge Management (KM) and its ability to be applied to all types of organisations to increase efficiency has been popularised extensively. An analysis of KM literature suggested that the principles of KM may be used to increase efficiency and create competitive advantage. This study attempted to identify whether the benefits gained by other organisations through the application of Knowledge Management principles, could be applied to the Tendering Process in South African Government Institutions. The study sought to identify how Knowledge Value Chain by Wang and Ahmed (2005) may be leveraged to create an enhanced Tendering Process. The study then reviewed the Tendering Processes conducted in Australia, United States of America, Malaysia and South Africa and sought to identify the common steps in a tendering process in order to construct a standard tendering process. The Knowledge Value Chain was then applied to this process to create a standard tendering process enhanced by Knowledge Management Principles. The model was compared to the processes currently conducted in two Government institutions and two parastals. The findings indicated that the model is well suited for Government Organisations and would assist in the creation of greater transparency, however the practical implementation of the model is yet unlikely as the model suggest electronic access to information, and the process in South African Government Institutions is predominately paper-based.
- Format
- 231 p., pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Commerce, Information Systems
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Kasi, Sizukisa Bridget
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