Dr Yenni Tim
Senior Lecturer

Dr Yenni Tim

PhD Information Systems, UNSW Sydney | Master of Science, National University of Singapore

Business School
School of Information Systems and Technology Management

Dr. Yenni Tim works on challenges at the intersection of digital capacity, resilience, and societal progress, currently as a Senior Lecturer in the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Business School.

Her research program develops understanding on the effective design, deployment, and use of digital technologies to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to major technological, organisational, and societal shocks, as well as to advance resilient and sustainable development. The in-depth field work and action design research projects Yenni has completed to date address challenges related to the effective leveraging of digital technologies for pandemic and disaster response, digital disadvantages, environmental sustainability, digital shocks, and social exclusions.

Yenni is a recipient of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Early Career Award, the Association's highest distinction for young scholars. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal (2020 - present) and the European Journal of Information Systems (incoming, 2023), as well as a Managing Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (2019 - present). Yenni also regularly contributes reviews to journals (e.g., ISR, JSIS, EJIS, ISJ, I&O, I&M) for research relevant to digital (including cyber) resilience, digital social innovation, technology affordances, and/or use qualitative or design research methodologies. 

As an extension of her focus on practice-driven research, Yenni developed a tripartite ‘Sandbox’ engagement framework in 2018 and founded the UNSW Sandbox Program (unsw.to/sandbox) in November 2019 to empower three-way partnerships among industry practitioners, academics, and university students. Within 3 years, the Sandbox Program has grown into a platform that affords tripartite collaboration at scale and generates outcomes across education, research, and social impact. 

In terms of educational outcomes, the Sandbox Program has provided over 6,200 undergraduate and postgraduate students across the Information Systems, Actuarial Studies, Commerce, and Marketing programs at UNSW the opportunity to be exposed to contemporary industry challenges and know-how. Students work directly with academic experts and over 140 industry practitioners from 22 organisations, such as WWF Australia, Ernst & Young, the Australian Red Cross, KPMG, Microsoft, and Roche Australia, to co-create solutions for over 60 business and societal challenges. The impact of the Sandbox Program has been recognised by three national awards and two university innovation awards in the 3 years since its inception.

 

Location
2085, Level 2, Quadrangle Building E15
  • Journal articles | 2023
    Davison RM; Marabelli M; Tim Y; Beath C, 2023, 'The practitioner perspective', Information Systems Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12461
    Journal articles | 2023
    Dias M; Pan SL; Tim Y; Land L, 2023, 'Managing historical conditions in information systems strategizing: An imprinting perspective', Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 32, pp. 101787 - 101787, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsis.2023.101787
    Journal articles | 2023
    Tim Y; Chiew TK; Lim HM; Teo CH; Ng CJ, 2023, 'Design process knowledge for crisis-driven information systems solutions: Insights on building digital resilience from an action design research study', Information Systems Journal, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12457
    Journal articles | 2022
    Pan SL; Carter L; Tim Y; Sandeep MS, 2022, 'Digital sustainability, climate change, and information systems solutions: Opportunities for future research', International Journal of Information Management, 63, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102444
    Journal articles | 2022
    Tamm T; Hallikainen P; Tim Y, 2022, 'Creative analytics: Towards data-inspired creative decisions', Information Systems Journal, 32, pp. 729 - 753, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12369
    Journal articles | 2021
    Tim Y; Cui L; Sheng Z, 2021, 'Digital resilience: How rural communities leapfrogged into sustainable development', Information Systems Journal, 31, pp. 323 - 345, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12312
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tim Y; Hallikainen P; Pan S; Tamm T, 2020, 'Actualizing business analytics for organizational transformation: A case study of Rovio Entertainment', European Journal of Operational Research, 281, pp. 642 - 655, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2018.11.074
    Journal articles | 2020
    Tim Y; Ouyang T; Zeng D, 2020, 'Back to the future: Actualizing technology affordances to transform Emperor Qin's terracotta warriors Museum', Information and Management, 57, pp. 103271 - 103271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2020.103271
    Journal articles | 2020
    Zeng D; Tim Y; Yu J; Liu W, 2020, 'Actualizing big data analytics for smart cities: A cascading affordance study', International Journal of Information Management, 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102156
    Journal articles | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Fauzi A, 2018, 'Digitally enabled affordances for community-driven environmental movement in rural Malaysia', Information Systems Journal, 28, pp. 48 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12140
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Fauzi A, 2017, 'Digitally enabled crime-fighting communities: Harnessing the boundary spanning competence of social media for civic engagement', Information and Management, 54, pp. 177 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.05.006
    Journal articles | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Ractham P; Kaewkitipong L, 2017, 'Digitally enabled disaster response: the emergence of social media as boundary objects in a flooding disaster', Information Systems Journal, 27, pp. 197 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/isj.12114
  • Conference Papers | 2022
    Zhang X; Pan S; Tim Y; Jiang V, 2022, 'Designing a Virtual Reality Video for Disability Inclusion: An Action Design Research', in ICIS 2022 Proceedings, Copenhagen, presented at International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Copenhagen, 09 December 2022 - 14 December 2022, https://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2022/digit_nxt_gen/digit_nxt_gen/3
    Conference Papers | 2020
    Dias M; Pan S; Tim Y; Land L, 2020, 'Digital imprinting: The role of history in digital strategising at a predigital organisation', in Proceedings of the 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Information Systems (IS) for the Future, PACIS 2020, Dubai, UAE, presented at 24th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Information Systems (IS) for the Future, PACIS 2020, Dubai, UAE, 20 June 2020 - 24 June 2020, https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2020/67/
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Dias M; Pan S; Tim Y, 2019, 'Knowledge Embodiment of Human and Machine Interactions: Robotic Process Automation at the Finland Government', in Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2019), Association for Information Systems (AIS), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, pp. 11 - 11, presented at The 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2019), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, 08 June 2019 - 14 June 2019, https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rip/18/
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2018, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2018, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in ICIS 2017: Transforming Society with Digital Innovation
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Ouyang T, 2018, 'Museum in the Age of Digital Transformation', in Proceedings of the 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018), Association for Information Systems (AIS), Yokohama, Japan, presented at The 22nd Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018), Yokohama, Japan, 26 June 2018 - 28 June 2018, https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2018/102/
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Cui L, 2017, 'Alibaba’s Digital Enablement Strategies in Rural China', in Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2017), Association for Information Systems, Seoul, South Korea, presented at The 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS2017), Seoul, South Korea, 10 December 2017 - 13 December 2017, http://aisel.aisnet.org/icis2017/PracticeOriented/Presentations/6/
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Tim Y; Pan SL; Bahri S; Khan AFA, 2014, 'Social Media as Boundary Objects: A Case of Digitalized Civic Engagement in Malaysia', in Proceeding of the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, presented at The 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2014), Auckland, New Zealand, 08 December 2014 - 10 December 2014, http://hdl.handle.net/10292/8105
    Conference Papers | 2014
    Wang J; Tim Y; Wong WF; Ong ZL; Sun Z; Li HH, 2014, 'A coherent hybrid SRAM and STT-RAM L1 cache architecture for shared memory multicores', in Proceedings of the Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC, pp. 610 - 615, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ASPDAC.2014.6742958
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Tim Y; Yang L; Pan SL; Kaewkitipong L; Ractham P, 2013, 'The emergence of social media as boundary objects in crisis response: A collective action perspective', in International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2013): Reshaping Society Through Information Systems Design, pp. 3882 - 3893
    Conference Papers | 2013
    Wang J; Tim Y; Wong WF; Li HH, 2013, 'A practical low-power memristor-based analog neural branch predictor', in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pp. 175 - 180, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISLPED.2013.6629290

  • AIS Early Career Award - by Association for Information Systems (AIS) (2021)
  • Dean's Emerging Leadership Award - by UNSW Business School (2021)
  • Value in Action Award - by UNSW Business School (2021)
  • The Heinz Harant Award for Teaching Innovation by UNSW (2020)
  • Dean’s Research Fellow – by UNSW Business School (2020 to 2022)
  • National Award of ICT Educator of the Year – by the Australian Computer Society (ACS) (2019)
  • Best Poster Award at 2019 Learning and Teaching Forum – by UNSW Office of the PVC Education (2019)
  • John Prescott Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation – by UNSW Business School (2019)
  • Staff Excellence Award for Research Achievement – by the UNSW Business School (2018)
  • The Professor M Weinstock Memorial Prize Most Innovative Completed PhD – by UNSW Business School (2018)
  • Best Practice-oriented Paper Award – by the International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) (2017)

  • Co-Lead for Sustainability and Resilience Research, at the Digital Sustainability Knowledge Hub (DS Hub), UNSW Business School - 2021 to present
  • Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal (ISJ) (ABDC A* Journal) – 2020 to present
  • Managing Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS) (ABDC A* Journal) – 2019 to present
  • Core Member of the Digital Enablement Research Network (DERN), UNSW Business School – 2016 to present

My Research Supervision

  • Digital Sustainability 
  • Resilient Strategy for the Future of Work (completed)

My Teaching

Current Courses Taught