Recent paper by Marijn Janssen, instructor of the TU Delft online course ‘Open Data Governance and Use’, explores the use of open and big data and how it can influence decision-making quality.

The paper authored by Marijn Janssen, professor at the section of Information and Communication Technology at TU Delft, published in The Journal of Business Research, explores how organizations are looking for ways to harness the power of big data to improve their decision making:

“Despite its significance the effects of big data on decision-making quality has been given scant attention in the literature. In this paper factors influencing decision-making based on big data are identified using a case study. Big data is collected from different sources that have various data qualities and are processed by various organizational entities resulting in the creation of a big data chain.”

“The veracity (manipulation, noise), variety (heterogeneity of data) and velocity (constantly changing data sources) amplified by the size of big data calls for relational and contractual governance mechanisms to ensure big data quality and being able to contextualize data. The case study reveals that taking advantage of big data is an evolutionary process in which the gradually understanding of the potential of big data and the routinization of processes plays a crucial role.”

Sophisticated Processes
Janssen argues that the factors identified in this research can be used to improve the big data decision-making quality by organizations. “Decision-making based on big data requires the organization of the activities to acquire and use big data analytics to analyze data. Organizations have to develop sophisticated processes to understand the context to have the precise meaning to make big data usable for decision-making.”

“The case study clearly shows the evolutionary nature of adopting big data and big data analytics approaches, which is surrounded by uncertainty and complexity. This nature becomes paramount when looking at the governance.”

Janssen has been ranked as one of the leading e-government researchers and has published over 320 refereed publications. To read full paper go to: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0148296316304945

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