How big data analytics affect management control in indonesian companies

Abstract

Big data is a new technology that is able to display pattern analysis and connections in data that can only be created by using big data, while management control cannot be separated from the role of supporting data, without which the control does not have a strong foundation and can influence the main objectives of management control. This study aims to investigate the role of big data in management control, such as what insight the organization knows about big data and how it is treated and whether big data influences management control over the organization. This study using qualitative research on research methodology. The data collection technique is conducted by interviewing two people representing an organization and carried out to three organizations in Indonesia. The result of this study, Although the organization recognizes the greatness of big data especially for proper management control, it is constrained by the large costs of collecting and processing big data, which exceeds the core operating costs of their business, and they are not ready for big data processing because they are faced with special expertise needs in running big data that they don’t already have.