An Explorative Study on the Perceived Challenges and Remediating Strategies for Big Data among Data Practitioners
2020
Online
Elektronische Ressource
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Background: Worldwide, new data are generated exponentially. The emergence of Internet of Things has resulted in products that were designed first to generate data. Big data are valuable, as they have the potential to create business value. Therefore, many organizations are now heavily investing in big data. Despite the incredible interest, big data analytics involves many challenges that need to be overcome. A taxonomy of these challenges is available that was created from the literature. However, this taxonomy fails to represent the view of data practitioners. Little is known about what practitioners do, what problems they have, and how they view the relationship between analysis and organizational innovation. Objective: The purpose of this study was twofold. First, it investigated what data practitioners consider the main challenges of big data and that may prevent creating organizational innovation. Second, it investigated what strategies these data practitioners recommend to remediate these challenges. Methodology: A survey using semi-structured interviews was performed to investigate what data practitioners view as the challenges of big data and what strategies they recommend to remediate those challenges. The study population was heterogeneous and consisted of 10 participants that were selected using purposive sampling. The interviews were conducted between February 27, 2020 and March 24, 2020. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the transcripts. Results: Ninety per cent of the data practitioners experienced working with low quality, unstructured, and incomplete data as a very time-consuming process. Various challenges related to the organizational aspects of analyzing data emerged, such as a lack of experienced human resources, insufficient knowledge of management about the process and value of big data, a lack of understanding about the role of data scientists, and issues related to communication and collaboration between employees and department
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An Explorative Study on the Perceived Challenges and Remediating Strategies for Big Data among Data Practitioners
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Veröffentlichung: | 2020 |
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