Pak Yoong

Pak Yoong is a professor of information systems/e-commerce at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Professor Yoong teaches in the areas of virtual organisation, research methods, and IS leadership. His research, teaching, and consulting experience is in the facilitation of virtual meetings, online communities of practice, online knowledge sharing, mobile collaborations, and human resource development in information technology environments.

Publications

Leadership in the Digital Enterprise: Issues and Challenges
Pak Yoong. © 2010. 340 pages.
In digital enterprise, individuals use a variety of technologies to assist them in communicating, collaborating, and coordinating their activities across distance and time...
Knowledge Brokers in Overlapping Online Communities of Practice: The Role of the Connector-Leader
Jocelyn Cranefield, Pak Yoong. © 2010. 14 pages.
This chapter argues that leaders need to better understand the roles played by informal knowledge brokers in connecting overlapping online communities of practice (CoPs). It...
The Application of Blended Action Learning to Leadership Development: A Case Study
Kate Thornton, Pak Yoong. © 2010. 18 pages.
This chapter describes the use of blended action learning in a professional development context. Action learning is a process that involves small groups of learners working on...
Managing IT Professionals in the Internet Age
Pak Yoong, Sid Huff. © 2007. 329 pages.
The nature of information technology work has changed dramatically in the past decade. The rise of the Internet has driven massive shifts in both what IT people are asked to do...
Reframing, Retooling, and Reskilling: Coping with Change in the Internet Age
Eugene Cash, Pak Yoong, Sid Huff. © 2007. 15 pages.
An IS professional’s ability to perform in his or her role is vital to the utilisation of information systems within an organisation. The introduction of e-commerce has opened a...
GSS Facilitation: A Reflective Practitioner Perspective
Pak Yoong, Brent Gallupe. © 2002. 27 pages.
The objectives of this chapter are to describe the nature of reflective practice and the development of reflective practice in one human aspect of information technology...
Using Action Learning in GSS Facilitation Training
Pak Yoong, Brent Gallupe. © 2002. 16 pages.
Although electronic face-to-face meetings are increasingly being used by organizations to improve the productivity of their strategic planning teams, design task forces, quality...