Research

Beijing Research Trip with PhD Supervisor

Goh Chong Leng, Jenson (a.k.a Da Niu) is a part-time doctoral candidate in the Department of Information Systems, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore since 2007. He obtained his Bachelor of Science, Computer Science degree and Master of Science, Computer Science degree in NUS in 1997 and 2000 respectively. He started his PhD hugely due to his hunger for knowledge in the area of strategic management. Beside working on many strategic related issues at work, Jenson feels that learning from the academic world is also an important undertaking. That way, he can constantly test what he learnt in his PhD journey at work and hence allowing him to have a more in-depth understanding of organization.

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Research Interests & Achievements

Jenson’s research interests include (but not limited to) the following:

1. Strategic Management
2. Enterprise Agility
3. Business-IT alignment
4. Organizational Control
5. Collective Action
6. Capability Development
7. Sustainability
8. Qualitative Case Study Research

In 2011, as a result of Jenson’s relentless hard work in striving for strong research outputs, he was awarded the “Research Achievement Award 2010/2011” by School of Computing, NUS. This is a strong testament of Jenson’s ability to deliver consistent results in everything he undertakes especially evident in this case because unlike his peers, Jenson is a part-time PhD candidate.

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Research Publications 

Published

Goh, J.C.L. and Zuo, M.Y., A Megaproject that Defines the Nation – The Building of the Largest Airport Terminal in Asia, International Conference on Information Systems, Shanghai, China, 2011 (Tier 1 IS Conference)

Goh, J.C.L., Zuo, M.Y. and Pan, S.L., Transforming Organizational Capabilities into Agile IT Adoption: A Case Study of Beijing International Airport, International Conference on Information Systems, St Louis, USA, 2010 (Tier 1 IS Conference)

Goh, C.L., Shu, Y.F., Huang, Z.Y., Ooi, B.C., Dynamic buffer management with extensible replacement policies, VLDB Journal, 15(2), pp 99-120 (2006) (Tier 1 Database Journal)

Bressan, S., Goh, C.L., Ooi, B.C., Tan, K.L., A Framework for Modeling Buffer Replacement Strategies. CIKM 2000, pp 62-69 (Top Tier 2 Database Conference)

Goh, C.L., Ooi, B.C., Bressan, S., Tan, K.L., Integrating Replacement Policies in StorM: An Extensible Approach. SIGMOD Conference 2000. pp 599 (Tier 1 Database Conference)

Goh, C.L., Bressan, S., StorM: a 100% Java Persistent Storage Manager. L’OBJET 2000, 6(3)

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Research & Editorial Activities

As a case study researcher, Jenson has the rare opportunities to visit many large China corporations to understand how these corporations deal with their day to day strategic and operational challenges. The corporations that Jenson visited include:

1. June 2009 – Beijing Capital International Airport Management Company. To understand how they are able to successfully complete the Terminal 3 IT program implementation in a mere 2 years in time for the 2008 Olympics.
   

   Beijing Capital International Airport Study Trip

2. Oct 2010 – Neusoft (China largest outsourced company) and Global Support Center, SAP Chinain Dalian. To understand how boundaries (i.e. knowledge, culture and etc) between outsourced company and client are overcame.
   

   Study trip to Dalian

3. Jan 2011 – China Mobile (Largest Telcom in the World), Beijing. To understand how China Mobile carry out an overwhelmingly successful Green Program within a short span of 2 years.
   

   China Mobile Study Trip

4. Jun 2011 – Xugong Construction Machinery Group (a leading construction machinery manufacturer and provider in China for 19 years), Xu Zhou, China. To understand how the conglomerate successfully initiates a strategic renewal process through the implementation of an ERP. The most stunning impression of Xugong is its ability to complete the implementation of an ERP (SAP) with 6 key components all go lives in a big bang approach in less than 5 months time.
   

   Xu Gong Study Trip

5. Dec 2011 – Damai (one of the largest eCommerce Ticketing Company in China). To understand how they develop entrepreneurial capability, and how they are able to constantly keep in pace with the very volatile environment.
   

   Damai Study Trip: With my Junior PhD Comrade - Wang Zheng

6. Mar 2012 – Tencent (China’s largest internet service provider) and Jeanswest(International successful fashion retail company). We are interested to understand how Tencent has been continuously able to generate disruptive innovation and we are interested to understand how Jeanswest enable a seamless and info transparent supply chain.
   

   Miniature Model of Tecent's Shenzhen Headquarter

   

   Jeanswest's China Headquarter in Huizhou

He is currently serving as an ad-hoc reviewers for the following conferences and journals:

1. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS)
2. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS)
3. International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC)
4. Strategy Management Journal

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Teaching Activities & Achievements 

Jenson are also involved in many training programmes in his day to day job as a Resident Fellow in King Edward VII Hall of Residence and as a Senior Manager in Computer Centre. As a Resident Fellow, Jenson conducts a Project Management course for the residents of the hall every semester and was given a consistent high teaching survey score by the students who participated in the course (see Training Survey). As a Senior Manager, Jenson was the overall in charge responsible in training the administrators who are using the system he managed. In all these courses, Jenson is well known as an excellence trainer (see Training Survey). Jenson is also well known as a strong believer in leveraging on cutting edge teaching technologies in conducting his course (See an example here).

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