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Business intelligence (BI) is an emerging trend in improving decision support for business success. Rapid acceleration of BI applications in analysing often uncertain changes within the business environment (Singh & Singh, 2013) and conducting those changes (Isık et al., 2013) has brought thoughtful attentions of both IS practitioners and researchers. BI provides the decision-making aids that guide business achieve competitive advantages emerging from those changes (Guarda et al., 2013).
The decision making is an emerging issue (Maani, 2013) as it evaluates and analyzes the current and future environment (Polasky et al., 2011). It helps business to steer uncertainty out from unanticipated changes within the environment (Jansen et al., 2005; Chen et al., 2012, Al-ma, 2013). As rapidity and consistency of changes raise the issue of the decision making in business (Maani, 2013), quality information emerging from those changes becomes vital for quality decision (Ponelis & Britz, 2011, Citroen, 2011). BI is an application of information system (IS) (Williams & Williams, 2010) business uses in accumulating disseminating, assimilating, and exploiting information into the decision-making process, which leads to change adaptation in businesses (Gangadharan & Swami, 2004). BI is defined as “the process of integration of data from disparate internal and external data sources, applying analysis tools and techniques to understand the information within the data, making decisions, and taking actions based on this gained insight” (Gangadharan & Swami, 2004, p.139). Although BI implementation seems business imperative to conduct information management and the decision making using given information (Olszak & Ziemba, 2006, Guarda et al., 2013, Isık et al., 2013), discovering factors of BI implementation seems important.
Information management satisfies manager’s information-based needs for the decision making (Doucek, 2015, Polasky et al., 2011). As BI is the conductor of information management, information management capability becomes an issue of BI implementation. Further, Brinkhues et al. (2014) cited from Rumelt (1991) argue that information management capability depends on a firm’s organizational capability, which appears a logical factor of BI implementation. It is important to note that the business environment is always dynamic (Rolfe, 2010) that necessitates iteration of the decision making to keep conducting changes and achieving competitive advantages of those changes (Polasky et al., 2011). As new decision requires new information management, BI application cannot be static (Guarda et al., 2013). Therefore, BI implementation as an ongoing process necessitates the readiness of organizational capability in business.
The purpose of this study is to explore an integrated view of literature that how the readiness of organizational capability offers significant effects in BI implementation. As BI is an IS-led application and its implementation is a managerial role, understanding factors related to IS-driven and managerial capabilities of organization is the particular objective of this study. For identifying readiness of desired factors, the study conducts a literature review for collecting and analyzing relevant contents towards BI implementation. The qualitative content analysis was conducted for the study procedure. This approach generates themes inductively from the given data (Miah & Genemo, 2016) and draws the inference by examining those themes (Zhang & Wildemuth, 2016). Finally, this approach has been recognized for exploring the social reality of BI implementation in business.