Wafi Al-Karaghouli
Lecturer, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Admissions Director
Contact Details
Brunel University
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
Summary
Wafi gained extensive experience with multinational companies. Twelve years industrial experience of which one was a Blue-chip and more than twenty years in Higher Education. A qualified practitioner in Total Quality Management (TQM) and in Project Management Methodology PRINCE2.
He joined Brunel Business School (BBS) in January 2008. Wafi is the founder and chair of the Middle East and Sustainable Developments Focus (MESDF) Group. He is also a member of the Heathrow Sector Steering Group, BCS-Elite and BCS-Project Management Group. Prior to Brunel, Wafi was a Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods and Information Technology in the University of Westminster, Westminster Business School (WBS), Marylebone Campus. He taught on the Undergraduate, Postgraduate, MBA and the Professional ACCA degrees. The synergy between past industrial experience and academic interests enables him 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) and knowledge management (KM). These topics have taken Wafi into 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. He has developed a framework ensuring the effective linking of business requirements and ITS specifications.
Wafi has published on the subject of information systems failure in the retail sector. He contributed to the developments of the Wyatts Dealer Board System at Reuters in London, a Knowledge Management System at Merrill Lynch HSBC, Implementation and Use of Blackberry at Sage Publishing Company, and SITE a Training Programme for new recruits at CACI Limited in London. Wafi has also contributed to the development of the Iris Recognition Immigration System (iris) and BAA’s fast-track check-in desks at Heathrow Airport. Wafi is a reviewer and on the editorial board of a number of international journals, and has published in a number of leading journals and international conferences in the areas of knowledge management, and IS/IT. He has also chaired conference tracks.
Teaching and Research
Teaching
Module leader for MG5563 - Knowledge, Innovation and Learning (MSc Human Resource Management, MSc Corporate Brand Management, MSc Management, MSc Marketing, MSc Global Supply Chain Management).
Module leader for MG5570 - Understanding Business and Management Research Methods (All MSc Programmes at BBS). MG3109 – Innovation and Knowledge Management (BSc).
Research Interests
- 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.
Research Centres
Publications
Publications
Journal Papers
(2013) Al-Karaghouli, W., Ghoneim, A., Sharif, A. and Dwivedi, Y., The Effect of Knowledge Management in Enhancing the Procurement Process in the UK Healthcare Supply Chain, Journal of Information Systems Management 30 (1)
(2012) Al-Karaghouli, W., Haffar, M. and Ghoneim, A., An Analysis of the Influence of Organisational Culture on TQM Implementation in an Era of Global Marketing: The Case of Syrian Manufacturing Organisations, International Journal of Productivity and Quality
(2011) Sharif, AM. and Al-Karaghouli, W., From the special issue editors: Exploring the frontiers of knowledge management transfer in the public and private sector, Information Systems Management 28 (1) : 2- 4
(2011) Dwivedi, YK., Venkitachalam, K., Sharif, AM., Al-Karaghouli, W. and Weerakkody, V., Research trends in knowledge management: Analyzing the past and predicting the future, Information Systems Management 28 (1) : 43- 56
(2010) Al-Karaghouli, W. and Fadare, EB., The impact of information lifecycle management process in the Nigerian financial sector, International Journal of Business Information Systems 6 (1) : 5
(2010) Furlong, S. and Al-Karaghouli, W., Delivering professional projects: The effectiveness of project management in transformational e-Government initiatives, Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy 4 (1) : 73- 94
(2005) Al-Karaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Fitzgerald, G., Promoting requirement identification quality: enhancing the human interaction dimension, Journal of Enterprise Information Management 18 (2) : 256- 267
(2003) Alshawi, S. and Al-Karaghouli, W., Managing knowledge in business requirements identification, Logistics Information Management 16 (5) : 341- 349
(2000) Al-Karaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Fitzgerald, G., Negotiating and understanding information systems requirements: The use of set diagrams, Requirements Engineering 5 (2) : 93- 102
(Accepted) Haffar, M., Al-Karaghouli, W. and Ghoneim, A., The mediating effect of individual readiness for change in the relationship between organisational culture and TQM implementation, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence Journal
Conference Papers
(2009) Furlong, S. and Al-Karaghouli, W., Determination of the effectiveness of project management in serving the progress of transformational eGovernment., 9th European Conference on e-Government (ECEG 2009)
(2008) Al-Karaghouli, W. and Al-Ani, A., Failure and success of e-Gov initiatives, 2nd Annual Al-Kindi Engineering Conference (AEC'08)
(2008) Fadare, EB. and Al-Karaghouli, W., Exploring information lifecycle management in the Nigerian financial sector: A case study, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 2008) Download publication
(2008) Al-Karaghouli, W., Taylor, P. and Alshawi, S., Knowledge management: Using a knowledge requirements framework to enhance UK health sector supply chains, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems 2008 (EMCIS 2008) Download publication
(2004) Al-Karaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Fitzgerald, G., Promoting system quality through a sociotechnical requirements identification and elicitation process, European and Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (EMCIS 2004)
(2000) Alshawi, S., Al-Karaghouli, W. and Elstob, M., A strategic elicitation and a systemic approach to customer requirements, OR42 - OR in the 21st Century: Communications and Knowledge Management
(1999) Al-Karaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Elstob, M., An operational research approach for establishing software engineering requirements, OR41 the Annual Operational Research Society Conference
(1999) Al-Karaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Elstob, M., Enhancing understanding of customer requirements in business software engineering, Academy of Business and Administrative Sciences International Conference (ABAS)
Book Chapters
(2002) Al-Kharaghouli, W., Alshawi, S. and Fitzgerald, G., A framework for managing knowledge in requirements identification: bridging the knowledge gap between business and system developers. In: Hlupic, V. ed. Knowledge and Business Process Management. London, UK : Idea Group Publishing 217- 237
(2001) Al-Karaghouli, W., Fitzgerald, G. and Alshawi, S., Knowledge requirement system (KRS): An approach to improving and understanding requirements. In: Coakes, E., Willis, D. and Clarke, S. eds. Knowledge Management in the Sociotechnical World: The Graffiti Continues. 170- 184
