Yinshan Tang

Dr Yinshan Tang is a Professor in Management Informatics at Henley Business School who teaches IT Project Management, Applied Informatics, Organisation Design and Performance Management at MSc level for over 10 years. He had industry experience working for a business consulting firm as a Business Unit Manager for 6 years before coming to Reading 2004. He worked as a Parasitologist for over 17 years.

Module convenor for:

Papers:

Journal of Electronic Science and Technology. 13 (3): 255-263, DOI: 10.11989/JEST.1674-862X.505221.

Blue Book of Management, Annual Report on Management in China, pp.103-120. Social Science Academic Press, Beijing. ISBN:987-7-5097-7503-5.

Dzandu, M.D., & Tang, Y. (2015) Beneath a learning management system: understanding the human Information interaction in information systems; In Procedia Manufacturing: 6th International Conference on applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2015) Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; July 25 - 31 2015; pg 1901 - 1907.

S. Opoku-Anokye and Y. Tang (2014), Design of a Unified Data with Business Rules Storage Model for OLTP and OLAP Systems. Journal of Computing and Information Technology – CIT 22, 2014, Special Issue on LISS 2013, pp.1-11, doi: 10.2498/cit.1002263.

Y. Tang (2014), Management Philosophies between the East and the West. Blue Book of Management, Annual Report on Management in China, pp.83-100, Social Science Academic Press, Beijing, ISBN:978-7-5097-6504-3

M. Dzandu, H. Boateng & Y. Tang (2014), An investigation into knowledge acquisition idiosyncrasies in Ghanaian universities. VINE: The Journal of Information and Knowledge Management Systems, Vol 44 (4), pp. 579-591.

H. Liang, Y. Tang and X. Huo (2014), Liushou Women’s Happiness and its Influencing Factors in Rural China. Social Indicators Research, Vol. 117, pp. 907-918.

Pan, Y.-C., Tang, Y. and Gulliver, S. (2013)Artefact-oriented business process modelling: an ontological dependency approach. In: The 15th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2013), 4th - 7th July 2013, Angers, France.

Pan, Y.-C., Tang, Y. and Gulliver, S. (2013)Mutual dependency grid for stakeholder mapping: a component-based approach to supply chain participant analysis. In: 14th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisation (ICISO), 25 -27 Mar 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 72-81.

Opoku-Anokye, S. and Tang, Y. (2013)Towards the design of a unified semantics model for OLTP and OLAP systems. In: 14th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisation (ICISO), 25 -27 Mar 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 106-112.

Opoku-Anokye, S. and Tang, Y. (2013)The design of a semantics-oriented organisational performance measurement system. In: 14th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisation (ICISO), 25 -27 Mar 2013, Stockholm, Sweden, pp. 45-49.

Pan, Y.-C., Tang, Y. and Gulliver, S. (2012)A component-based method for stakeholder analysis. In: International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS 2012). , 2012, Barcelona.

D. Williams and Y. Tang (2012), A Methodology to Model the Environmental Impacts of Electronic Software Distributions, Environmental Science and Technology 46(2), 1087-1095.

Collinge, W. H., Harty, C. F., Liu, K. and Tang, Y. (2010)Assessing organizational semiotics for IT systems design: improving information exchange processes across construction project stakeholders. In: 26th International Conference on IT in Construction & 1st International Conference on Managing Construction for Tomorrow, 1-3 Oct 2009, Istanbul, Turkey, pp. 239-247.

I. Ajelabi, Y. Tang (2010), The Adoption of Benchmarking Principles for Project Management Performance Improvement, International Journal of Managing Public Sector Information and Communication Technologies, 1(2), 1-8.

Y. Tang (2009) Product Based Project Portfolio (PBPP) for Best Practice and Information Sharing. Journal of Global Business Development, 1(1), 51-55.

B. Ling, Y. Tang, Kecheng Liu and Keith Neale (2009), Adaptive Project Planning and Management Based on Best Practices – COBRA System. Journal of Global Business Development, 1(1), 56-60.

I. Ajelabi, Y. Tang (2009), A Dynamic Framework for Measuring Project Management Success, Journal of Global Business Development, 2(3).

Zhang, J. K., Liu, K., Tang, Y., So, M. C., Ke, L. S. and Mao, A. L. (2008)Data collaborative work flow model for information integration with the support of web services. In: International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2008), 19-21 Mar 2008, Hong Kong, pp. 810-815.

Ling, B., Tang, Y., Liu, K., Sun, L., Cheong, A. and Neale, K. (2008)Requirements engineering for software in emerging markets. In: IEEE International Conference on Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics (IEEE/SOLI 2008), 12-15 Oct 2008, Beijing, China, pp. 1148-1152.

Books:

A. Davis & Y. Tang. (2003) Enablers of Productivity. DTI, Business Link. ISBN: 085605 4 038

Conference:

S. Opoku-Anokye, Y. Tang & S. Gulliver (2011) Enterprise Intelligence: Searching for a Single Version of Truth, Proceedings of International Conference on Business Intelligence and Financial Engineering, Hong Kong, 12-13, Dec, 2011.

J. Yu, S. Gulliver, Y. Tang & L. Ke (2011) Improving Aircraft maintenance, Repair and Overhaul: A Novel Text Mining Approach, IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Intelligent Systems, Fourth International Workshop on Advanced Computational Intelligence, Wuhan, China, 19-21 Oct 2011.

J. Yu, S. Gulliver, Y. Tang & L. Ke (2011) New Advances in Aircraft MRO Services: Data Mining Enhancement, Frist Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China, 28-30 Nov. 2011.

Yu-Chun Pan & Yinshan Tang (2010); Review of misfit issues between ERP principles and organisations. Proceedings of International Conference on Education and Management Technology (ICEMT), 2-4 Nov. 2010, pp 65 – 69.

Ajelabi, I & Tang, Y. (2010) A framework to dynamically define project success. Proceedings of International Conference on Information Management and Evaluation, Cape Town, South Africa. 25-26 March 2010, pp. 1-8.

Research collaboration:

Principle Investigator, Feb 2007 – April 2008, PASR SEC6-SA-211900 EuropCop (£110,000). Identify and recommend the best technologies and equipment for pedestrian police with special consideration for the security and wellbeing of the users in the EC member states.

Co-Investigator, Sept 2008 – April 2010, EPSRC research project (£89,000). Collaborative Knowledge Management for the Support of Through Life Building Processes. This research project focuses on the use of ICT to assist the knowledge sharing practices for construction industry. It is part of the Digital Economy Programme.

Co-Principle Investigator, Feb 2007 – Aug 2008, PASR SEC6-SA-204300 BIO3R, (£29,000). An emergency response system in the case of terrorist attack when using biological agents.

Lead Academic, March 2009 – Sept 2011, KTP7407 (£152,036). Business intelligence to automate business processes.

Lead Academic, March 2009 – March 2011, KTP7409 (£121,022). System and network security for aviation service industry.

Research supervision:

Supervising 6 PhD students.

1 EngD student in the research areas of Knowledge Management, Strategic Planning, Cloud Computing Strategy, ERP optimisation, Business Process Re-engineering and Carbon Footprint. 

Academic Supervisor, Oct 2006 – Oct 2008, KTP1567 (£86,000). Develop an automated project management tool to share best practices among projects for MOD related companies.

Academic Supervisor, Feb 2006 – Feb 2008, KTP1182 (£160,000). Business process reengineering and transformation of legacy system to SOA structure.

Academic Supervisor, Aug 2005 – Aug 2007, KTP924 (£86,000). Develop software to manage full life costing for buildings