Wafi Al-karaghouli

Biography

He joined Brunel Business School (BBS) in January 2008 and am the founder and chair of the Middle East and Sustainable Developments Focus (MESDF) Group, and co-founder of Operations and Supply Chain Systems (OASIS) research group. He is also a member of the Heathrow Sector Steering Group, BCS-Elite and BCS-Project Management Group. He continuously contribute and participate within the BCS national and international open debates. Prior to Brunel, He was a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Information Technology in the University of Westminster, Westminster Business School (WBS), Marylebone Campus. He has taught a range of courses on the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, MBA and Professional ACCA degrees. The synergy between past industrial experience and academic interests enables his to attempt to 'bridge the gap' between theory and practice. Hence his research tends to take the form of participatory action research and has embraced topics such as information system failure in business, systems thinking, problem solving, organisational learning (OL), knowledge management (KM), operations management and project management. These topics have lead me to many different organisations in both the Government/Public and Private profit-making sectors. In particular, his research has been concerned with the effective development of information systems and methodologies and He has developed a framework ensuring the effective linking of business requirements and ITS specifications.

Research Interest

Knowledge Management and Innovation, Project Management , Risk Management, Operations Management (TQM and Supply Chain), Information System Failure in Retail sector, Effective developments of IS/IT in business organisations, Sociotechnical Systems, E-Government, IS and Ops Management in Healthcare, Islamic Banking and Finance, Civil Aviation.