Towards A Process View on Critical Success Factors in Big Data Analytics Projects

Abstract

The research tries to identify factors that are critical for a Big Data project’s success. In total 27 success factors could be identified throughout the analysis of these published case studies. Subsequently, to the identification the success factors were categorized according to their importance for the project’s success. During the categorization process 6 out of the 27 success factors were declared mission critical._x000D_ Besides this identification of success factors, this thesis provides a process model, as a suggested way to approach Big Data projects. The process model is divided into separate phases. In addition to a description of the tasks to fulfil, the identified success factors are assigned to the individual phases of the analysis process. _x000D_ Finally, this thesis provides a process model for Big Data projects and also assigns success factors to individual process stages, which are categorized according to their importance for the success of the entire project.