Analyzing Business Intelligence Systems Based on 7s Model of McKinsey

Abstract

Business intelligence system (BIS) reflect on the foundation of completive advantage approaches, this article enhances previous articles of BIS implementation by analyzing a 7 McKinsey model. Using a Delphi survey method with sixty of managers and experts in the BIS field, the results from twenty pharmaceutical manufacturing industries deploying business intelligence applications are presented. The author surveyed a qualitative methodology to hypothesize a proposed model. The findings demonstrated that 80% of participants believe that both the hard and soft 7 dimensions of a McKinsey model—strategy, style, structure, staff, systems, skills, and shared values—are antecedents for successful BIS implementation. Precisely, shared value dimensions is the highest value affected by BIS implementation and skills dimension is the lowest value.