Research Article

Investigating the Impact of Big Data Analytics on Perceived Sales Performance: The Mediating Role of Customer Relationship Management Capabilities

Table 2

Questionnaire items.

Variable and sourcesItems

Better customer services [60, 61]BCS1“Use of BDA can useful to deal more strategically with internal and/or external customers.”
BCS2“Use of BDA can help to serve internal and/or external customers.”
BCS3“Use of BDA can help to improve the quality of customer service.”
BCS4“Use of BDA can help to serve customers more creatively.”
BCS5“Use of BDA can help to exchange information with internal and/or external customers.”
Personalization [62, 63]PR1“The BDA can help to tailor my services through personalized analytics.”
PR2“The BDA can help me to address the personal interests and preferences of customer by providing more relevant analyzed information.”
PR3“The BDA can provide me all types of information that customers like to know about products and services.”
Advanced analytics [65, 66]AA1“The analyzed information of BDA can create a competitive advantage.”
AA2“The analyzed information of BDA can enable quicker response to change as compared to a competitor.”
AA3“The analyzed information of BDA can help to enter new products/services and markets more quickly than our competitors.”
Improved relation knowledge [48, 67, 68]IRK1“Analyzed information of BDA can be very useful in terms of planning, organizing, and leading projects.”
IRK2“Analyzed information of BDA can be very useful in terms of planning and executing work in a collective environment.”
IRK3“Analyzed information of BDA can be very useful in terms of teaching others”.
IRK4“Analyzed information of BDA can be very useful to work closely with customers and maintain productive user/client relationships.”
Customer interaction management capability [31, 45, 46]CIMC1“BDA can be helpful to know the current needs and potential needs of the customer.”
CIMC2“BDA information good enough to create good relationships with key customers.”
CIMC3“BDA has the ability to assist regarding maintaining interactive two way communication with the customers.”
CIMC4“BDA can help the organizations to dialog with customers on continuous bases and provide good ways to improve the relationship with a customer.”
CIMC5“BDA information overall good enough to create and maintain a good relationship with the customer.”
Customer relationship upgrading capabilities [31, 45, 46]CRUC1“BDA frequently and systematically measure customer satisfaction.”
CRUC2“BDA provides formalized techniques for up selling to a key customer.”
CRUC3“BDA provides formalized techniques for cross-selling to a key customer.”
CRUC4“BDA extend the share of customers with key customers systematically.”
Customer win-back capabilities [31, 45, 46]CWBC1“BDA has the assisting ability to compensate any loss and inconvenience with the customer timely.”
CWBC2“BDA has the systematic process of interacting with lost or inactive customers for reestablishing the relationship.”
CWBC3“BDA has the ability to generate the corrective action alerts immediately with the customer unhappy with the product and services.”
“BDA can help to rebuild a good relationship with migrating or inactive customers.”
CWBC4“BDA has the assisting ability to compensate any loss and inconvenience with the customer timely.”
Perceived sales performance [80, 81]PSP1“The utilization of BDA will improve my closing rates.”
PSP2“Utilization of BDA enables me to analyze reasons for won and lost opportunities.”
PSP3“The utilization of BDA will improve my overall sales performance.”