Sven Carlsson
Professor emeritus
From an information consumer to an information author : a new approach to business intelligence
Author
Summary, in English
Self-Service Business Intelligence (SSBI) enables business users, such as executives, managers, analysts, and knowledge workers to build reports on a need-basis to support their decisions and actions toward business success. This suggests that business users are empowered not only to consume information but also to author it. Yet, research on SSBI is mainly concentrated at the industrial level, and furthermore little is known on the way SSBI is changing the current state of BI. To address this lack of knowledge, this study explores the attributes of SSBI that are necessary to extend the role of a business user beyond that of an information consumer by drawing on the literature of Self-Service Technologies (SST). This study provides a new definition of SSBI as a new approach to BI. Furthermore, it highlights the duality of high levels of co-production and low levels of dependency as key to the SSBI approach.
Department/s
- Department of Informatics
Publishing year
2018-04-03
Language
English
Pages
157-171
Publication/Series
Journal of Organizational Computing and Electronic Commerce
Volume
28
Issue
2
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Topic
- Information Studies
Keywords
- co-production
- independence
- information author
- information consumer
- Self-service business intelligence
- systematic literature review
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1091-9392