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Towards An Effective Design Of The Business Intelligence & Analytics Function Within An Organisation, Eric Sandosham
Towards An Effective Design Of The Business Intelligence & Analytics Function Within An Organisation, Eric Sandosham
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This dissertation is about the organisational considerations in setting up a successful business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) function. It addresses a gap in academic literature by presenting a theoretical framework on organisational attributes that impacts the BI&A function’s ability to improve the completeness and relevance of their data-driven solutions.
BI&A is a subset of information processing, and as such, subject to the phenomenon of uncertainty and equivocality. Most BI&A functions do not explicitly address this phenomenon in their organisation design, leading to suboptimal BI&A outcomes as widely publicised in both academic and practice literature.
This dissertation contributes to theory by …