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Nandish Patel

Lecturer

Contact Details

Room: EG 305
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom

Tel: +44 (0)1895 265295
Email: Nandish.Patel@brunel.ac.uk

Summary

Dr Nandish Patel has developed the Theory of Deferred Action to inform the design and development of organisations and IT systems. This is a design theory for emergent organisations and addressed how to develop integrated organisation and IT systems which reflect emergence. The theory explains organisations and IT systems as emergent phenomena. It draws on complexity theory to explain emergence and self-organisation. The theory is used by other researchers, recognized by the international US-based Association of Information Systems as a theory used in information systems research, applied by information management practitioners, and cited in UK government internal report and healthcare trade press. Present research is focused on developing deferred informational models of reality based on the theory. Dr Patel is a research member of the Brunel University Information Systems Evaluation and Integration group and the Complexity Collaborative Research Network.

Teaching and Research

Teaching

Information Systems in Organisations - The Brunel MBA
Organization and Systems Design
Systems Development Project
Research Methods

Research Interests

Emergent organisation and management
Construct development for systems evolution and emergent IT systems and IS.
Theory of Deferred Action and Deferred Systems Design

Research Centres

Information Systems Evaluation and Integration (ISEing)

Publications

Journal Papers

(2012) Pilla, V., Patel, NV. and Khan, T., Using Agent Based Simulation to Empirically Examine Complexity in Carbon Footprint Business Process, Int. J Business Information Systems 9 (4) : 435- 450

(2012) Pilla, VN., Patel, NV. and Khan, T., Using Agent Based Simulation to Empirically Examine Complexity in Carbon Footprint Business Process., International Journal for Business Information Systems 9 (4)

(2011) Patel, NV. and Ghoneim, A., Managing emergent knowledge through deferred action design principles: The case of eCommerce virtual teams, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 24 (5) : 424- 439

(2011) Ullah, K. and Patel, NV., Designing shariah compliant financial services: Addressing context for persistent adaptation (Migration), International Review of Business Research Papers Volume 7 (No. 1 or 2.)

(2011) Karim, U. and Patel, NV., Addressing Emergent Context of Shariah Compliant Financial Services: A Service Designing Construct, International Review of Business Research Papers 07 (03)

(2010) Patel, NV. and Hackney, R., Designing information systems requirements in context: Insights from the theory of deferred action, International Journal of Business Information Systems 6 (1) : 44- 57

(2010) Patel, NV., Strategic management of complex IT systems, International Journal of Information Technology and Management 9 (2) : 109- 131

(2010) Patel, NV., Eldabi, T. and Khan, TM., Theory of deferred action: Agent-based simulation model for designing complex adaptive systems, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 23 (4) : 521- 537

(2010) Patel, NV., Strategic Management of Complex IT Systems, International Journal of Information Technology and Management 9 (2) : 109- 131

(2010) Ramrattan, M. and Patel, NV., Web-based Information Systems Development and Dynamic Organisational Change: The Need for Development Tools to Cope with Emergent Information Requirements, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 23 (2-3)

(2010) Nyame-Asiamah, F. and Patel, NV., Informing Knowledge Management Systems Design and Evaluation with the Theory of Deferred Action, The International Journal of Technology,Knowledge and Society, 6

(2010) Patel, NV. and Hackney, RA., Designing information systems requirements in context: Insights from the theory of deferred action, International Journal of Business Information Systems 6 (1) : 44- 57

(2009) Patel, NV., Theory of Deferred Action: Exploring the boundaries of and between socio-technical systems design, Design Principles and Practice, An International Journal 3 (4)

(2007) Patel, NV., Deferred Action: Theoretical model of process architecture design for emergent business processes, International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management 2 (3) : 4- 21 Download publication

(2005) Patel, NV., Sustainable systems: Strengthening knowledge management systems with deferred action, International Journal of Information Technology and Management 4 (4) : 344- 365

(2003) Moin Namini, S., Patel, NV. and Edwards, B., Transferring IT For Art Higher Education in Iran: Critical Comparative Analysis, Iranian Journal of Research and Analysis. 19 (1) : 32- 50

(2002) Patel, N. and Olla, P., A value chain model for mobile data service providers, Telecommunications Policy 26 (9/10) : 551- 571

(2001) Patel, NV., Deferred system's design: Situated system requirements gathering with hyper-tmodeller, AI and Society 15 (4) : 316- 343

(2001) Patel, N., Deferred system's design: Situated system requirements gathering with Hyper-Tmodeller, AI & Society 15 (4) : 316- 343

(1999) Patel, NV., The spiral of change model for coping with changing and ongoing requirements, Requirements Engineering 4 (2) : 85- 91

Book Chapters

(2009) Patel, NV., The Theory of Deferred Action: Informing the design of information systems for complexity. In: al, DYE. ed. Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems. Hershey : Information Science Reference (IGI Global)

(2006) Patel, NV., The theory of deferred action: Designing organisations and systems for complexity. In: Patel, NV. ed. Organization and systems design. Palgrave MacMillan - Download publication

Books

(2006) Patel, N., Organization and systems design: theory of deferred action. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan