The Identification and Analysis of Causal and Effective Relationships of Required Infrastructures for the Deployment of an Electronic City based on Business Intelligence in Tehran

It is more than a decade that the electronic city creation projects have been started in different countries. In Iran, the government has taken steps towards establishing such cities. This study identifies and analyzes the causal and effective relationships in the infrastructure required for the deployment of an electronic city in Tehran based on business intelligence and then develops a new conceptual model.The first phase of this study was to identify and refine the infrastructure of a city based on business intelligence according to special and semi-structured interviews done. The combination of expert interviews with various specialties consisting of 10 persons was used. The second and third stages of the ANP technique were the prioritization criteria and in the final step the gap analysis and the Cokaran formula were used to calculate the sample size used.The model developed in this study showed that software maturity, hardware maturity, data centers, data governance, and the integrated management of the main pillars of the basic infrastructure of an electronic city were based on business intelligence, and the pattern of relationships among these variables suggested that the higher levels of the tested elements were more appropriate.