Title: A Narrative Analysis of Information System Development in a Local Government Organisation: Conversations Reflecting Deferred System's Design. Paper Aim: Using a Case study making the case for DSD in decision making as a strategic choice. Authors: Howard J. Harris and Nandish V. Patel Department of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 Address for correspondence: Nandish V. Patel. Department of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 Tel No: +44 (0) 1895 203397 Fax: +44 (0) 1895 251686 E-mail: nandish.patel@brunel.ac.uk About the authors: Howard J. Harris is currently a PhD student at Brunel University. Previously he spent 17 years in industry. The EPSRC research grant number 00302238 funds his work Nandish V. Patel is a lecturer in Information Systems at Brunel University. He has published articles and contributed to books on deferred system’s design. He is currently editing a book on adaptive evolutionary information systems.