Identifying and prioritizing critical success factors in implementing business intelligence related to human factors; using the DEMATEL technique

Various factors play a role in the successful implementation of the business intelligence system. However, often, technological and instrumental factors of business intelligence have been considered by researchers, managers and investors. Therefore, in our research, we decided to use the business intelligence management approach to identify and rank the critical factors for the success of the implementation of business intelligence related to human resource factors, using the literature and opinions of experts. Therefore, for data collection, the Creswell’s thematic literature review was used, from which 121 sources were selected as the statistical population, 33 sources were selected using the exclusion criteria, and thus clusters and human factors influencing on the success of business intelligence was extracted and became the basis for a questionnaire based on pairwise comparisons. Utilizing the opinions of ten business intelligence to analyze the data, DEMATEL technique was used, which best shows the relationships of influence and effectiveness. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by business intelligence experts and the reliability of the questionnaire was determined by Cronbachchr('39')s alpha method. The results showed that among the four clusters, factors related to team members, factors related to the project manager, factors related to user acceptance and cooperation and factors related to the organization, respectively, factors related to the organization and factors related to the project manager are causal factors influencing on other factors.