Measuring a Bank's BI Readiness

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Aliakbarian, Amin | 2009

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 39654 (44)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Management and Economics
Advisor(s): Kermanshah, Ali
Abstract:
Business Intelligence (BI) became a new trend in IT applications and the organization's request for it, has notably increased. BI helps organization for better decision making. It means appropriate and correct information for appropriate person at the suitable time and in the suitable format. The key point is that only buying a BI Application doesn't mean a successful BI Implementation. The organizations should know their needs and prerequisites for implementing these applications. Strategic alignment, information usage culture and technical readiness are a bit of these prerequisites. Banks are one of the industries that use IT as a heart in their business. Some of these banks create competitive advantages by IT. Parsian-Bank is one of these. Measuring the readiness of this Iranian private (commercial) bank (Parsian) by using "BI Readiness Framework" (2007, Williams, Steve and Williams) showed the weaknesses of the organization and risks of implementing BI , the study found that Parsian have major weaknesses in BI Portfolio Management for aligning BI Projects and they also have minor weaknesses in decision Process and information usage culture.
Keywords:
Knowledge Management ; Decision Making Support System ; Banking ; Iran ; Parsian Bank ; Business Intelligence

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