IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-04171032.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A practical guide for practitioners seeking to create value with big data

Author

Listed:
  • Pierre Dal Zotto

    (EESC-GEM Grenoble Ecole de Management, CERAG - Centre d'études et de recherches appliquées à la gestion - UGA - Université Grenoble Alpes)

Abstract

Purpose Practitioners, despite competing in a difficult environment, struggle to understand or implement researchers' findings that may support the development of sustainable competitive advantage. Following design science research using a gamification framework, the purpose of this study is to develop Game of Streams, a boundary object fostering practitioners' capabilities to generate IT-dependent strategic initiatives. The Game of Streams method is available following a creative commons license and has two benefits for practitioners. First, it allows practitioners to ideate IT-dependent strategic initiatives with big data fitting their context. Second, it supports the understanding of a taxonomy originating in academic research about big data, precisely Digital Data Streams. Design/methodology/approach Through design science research methodology, the author investigates the research/practice gap. This study created with and for firms Game of Streams, a boundary object using gamification. The author tested this boundary object with different organizations from small- and medium-sized enterprises to multinationals and proved its effectiveness in generating IT-dependent strategic initiatives. Findings Game of Streams is enhancing practitioners' use of research conclusions from academic literature. This study demonstrates that academic literature can impact practice better than before using boundary objects and gamification. Originality/value The gamification of research to bridge the research/practice gap is an emerging subject in the literature. This study offers an approach that allows practitioners to actively participate while manipulating research concepts in their context to generate IT-dependent strategic initiatives.

Suggested Citation

  • Pierre Dal Zotto, 2022. "A practical guide for practitioners seeking to create value with big data," Post-Print hal-04171032, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04171032
    DOI: 10.1108/jbs-02-2022-0027
    Note: View the original document on HAL open archive server: https://hal.science/hal-04171032
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://hal.science/hal-04171032/document
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1108/jbs-02-2022-0027?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04171032. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.