Organizational and Technical Factors for Implementing Business Intelligence

The Identification of Readiness in Implementating Business Intelligence Projects by Combining Interpretive Structural Modeling with Graph Theory and Matrix Approach

“…In an ideal situation, all values in matrix H will be maximum and so BIIAR will be 92.2337×10 17 . But in the worst situation all values in matrix H will be minimum and BIIAR will be 6.3747×10 8 . As you can see, the first organization is in better situation than second one, but still is far from the ideal.…”

“…As it can be seen in Figure 2, we studied different literature and detected the critical factors that are involved in a successful implementation of BI. We used the technical and organizational factors for the successful implementation of BI that were presented by [8] and listed in Figure 1.…”

“…In [2], Yeoh and Koronios said if BI shareholders reach an understanding of CSF, they can optimize their resources and efforts by focusing on critical factors that contribute to the successful implementation of the system. Farrokhi and Pokorádi [8] believed that these factors should be carefully considered by senior managers and BI project managers of companies that are evaluating the readiness of their organizations.…”

“…These factors will be much more effective, if used in accordance with their importance in various stages of implementation [8]. In this study, we used the factors presented in the paper of Farrokhi and Pokorádi [9] and listed in Figure 1.…”

“…The authors in [9] have categorized the factors into both organizational and technical factors. [8] In [3] Farrokhi and Pokorádi reviewed the necessities for building a model to evaluate BI projects and they said that the BI readiness assessment had two main goals. Firstly, it shows the gap areas that are the reasons for the companyies not being ready to continue with the BI efforts.…”