Big Data IT Capabilities
(2016) SYSK02 20161Department of Informatics
- Abstract
- The amount of data produced is growing rapidly and organizations are struggling to make use of the generated data from the vast amount of sources. Analyzing and interpreting data to find patterns and trends has become a competitive advantage for companies working with customer oriented operations. Many previous studies have shown the value potential of working with big data. In order to create value from big data an increased demand on companies IT capabilities has risen. We asked ourselves the question, which IT capabilities are these? To evaluate the capabilities needed, we have applied the Resource Based View (RBV). The RBV addresses the complementarity of IT and organizational processes and practices in organizational resources. To... (More)
- The amount of data produced is growing rapidly and organizations are struggling to make use of the generated data from the vast amount of sources. Analyzing and interpreting data to find patterns and trends has become a competitive advantage for companies working with customer oriented operations. Many previous studies have shown the value potential of working with big data. In order to create value from big data an increased demand on companies IT capabilities has risen. We asked ourselves the question, which IT capabilities are these? To evaluate the capabilities needed, we have applied the Resource Based View (RBV). The RBV addresses the complementarity of IT and organizational processes and practices in organizational resources. To answer our question, we examined academic literature regarding big data and RBV and put together a number of discussion points, which we then used in interviews with five customer oriented companies. After conducting the interviews an analysis was performed. The analysis compares the literature to the empirical data and commonalities and discrepancies were identified. We found that strong teams with several different competencies are required when working with big data. Furthermore, a new culture is arising with big data. A culture that requires decision makers to make decisions based on data instead of intuition. For the future, we recommend all managers to learn how big data can create value for their organization. (Less)
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- author
- Rasch Skogh, Mattias LU and Karlsson, Viktor
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- SYSK02 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Big data, RBV, IT Capabilities, Value creation
- report number
- INF16-006
- language
- English
- id
- 8875921
- date added to LUP
- 2016-06-23 08:47:16
- date last changed
- 2016-06-23 08:47:16
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