Title: Influential factors in decision support capabilities of a mobile-enabled interactive analytical dashboard system

Authors: Bih-Ru Lea; Wen-Bin Yu; Hokey Min

Addresses: Department of Business and Information Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 102A Fulton Hall, Rolla, MO 65401, USA Fax: 573-341-4812 ' Department of Business and Information Technology, Missouri University of Science and Technology, 102A Fulton Hall, Rolla, MO 65401, USA Fax: 573-341-4812 ' James R. Good Chair in Global Supply Chain Strategy, College of Business Administration, Department of Management, Bowling Green State University, BAA 3008C, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA

Abstract: With the growing complexity of the decision-making process in business applications, a mobile-enabled analytical dashboard system becomes a popular visualisation tool to harness the power of big data for timely and more informed decisions. To maximise the usefulness of an analytical dashboard system as a decision support tool, this paper identifies a host of factors influencing the decision support capabilities including the user's device type, IT knowledge, daily mobile usage, country of origin, gender, number of computer classes taken, and year in school. The results indicate that a user's device type and computer knowledge significantly influence both the efficiency and effectiveness of an interactive analytical dashboard system to enhance its decision support capabilities. The user's country of origin also influences the effectiveness of the dashboard's decision support capabilities.

Keywords: analytical dashboard system; data visualisation; decision support; mobile analytics; mobile devices.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2022.123932

International Journal of Business and Systems Research, 2022 Vol.16 No.4, pp.423 - 447

Received: 12 Jun 2020
Accepted: 17 Jun 2020

Published online: 05 Jul 2022 *

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