Abstract
Business Intelligence goal is to investigate, integrate and logically collect and multidimensional analysis of data from varied customer information sources, environment, competitors, markets, and etc. to enhance the performance of businesses, particularly startups. This research aims to study the impact of Business Intelligence on the financial performance of start-ups. The method is descriptive-survey, aside practical purpose. The study statistical population covered CEOs and experts of startup companies who were investigated in a 250-sample people. Also, 43-item questionnaire aside set up validity with confirmatory factor analysis, and validity analysis was employed for data collection. The results indicated that Business Intelligence did not impact Network Learning in startups, however, Business Intelligence enhanced Innovativeness in startups by 0.99, also, Innovativeness enhanced the financial performance of startups by 0.311, startups intelligence on Network Learning by 0.537, Network Learning on enhancing Innovativeness in startups by 0.632, and Network Learning on financial performance enhancement in startups by 0.397. The impact of Business Intelligence on Innovativeness as well as Network Learning confirmed, also, the impact of Innovativeness and Network Learning on financial performance confirmed. Thus, it can be concluded that the impact of Business Intelligence on financial performance has been studied indirectly through the mediating role of Innovativeness and Network Learning in startups. Surprisingly, these two factors are necessary to enhance financial performance.
1. Introduction
A start-up is a company set in motion by an entrepreneur to explore, develop, and verify a scalable business model (Katila, Chen & Piezunka, 2012). Even though entrepreneurship assigns to new businesses, containing self-employment and businesses that never aim to become registered, start-ups assign to new businesses that aim to evolve beyond the solo founder. One of the principles of entrepreneurship is the ability to create new and useful ideas that solve human problems (Raghuvanshi, Agrawal & Ghosh, 2017). Entrepreneurs, especially when combining resources in new and different ways to gain a competitive advantage over competitors, can succeed in creating market value and improve financial and non-financial performance (Guzman & Kacperczyk, 2019). Meanwhile, the importance of Business Intelligence in today’s organizations is undeniable because they enable the ability to monitor market trends and movements of competitors and customers by providing information to companies (Wanda & Stian, 2015). It is important to study the impact of the Business Intelligence on improving the learning and innovation capabilities of individuals in a start-up business that ultimately affects its financial performance.
4. Conclusion
The Impact of Business Intelligence on the financial performance of Start-ups investigated in this study. The method was descriptive-survey, aside practical purpose. The study statistical population covered CEOs and experts of startup companies who were investigated in a 250-sample people. Also, 43-item questionnaire aside set up validity with confirmatory factor analysis, and validity analysis was employed for data collection.
