ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a methodology that addresses the need for implementing strategic yet agile business intelligence (BI) in organizations; an Agile Integrated Methodology for Strategic Business Intelligence (AIMS-BI). AIMS-BI integrates a number of existing techniques, including information maturity assessment, multi-criteria decision-making and proof of concepts through prototyping, to support the agility and strategic perspective needed to achieve optimal business value from BI initiatives. AIMS-BI provides a methodology for assessing the state of readiness, identifying the capability gaps and developing a strategic path forward in a very agile way. The adoption of the readily accessible BI tools, technologies and data assets alone is not enough to give organizations the distinctive competitive advantage they are looking for through BI. Organizations seeking to effectively deploy strategic BI need an effective means of assessing the current state and maturity of their enterprise information management practices and identifying critical gaps that could present barriers and inhibit the desired returns on BI investments.
