Identifying Research Trends in Big data-driven Digital Transformation Using Text Mining

A big data-driven digital transformation is defined as a process that aims to innovate companies by triggering significant changes to their capabilities and designs through the use of big data and various technologies. For a successful big data-driven digital transformation, reviewing related literature, which enhances the understanding of research statuses and the identification of key research topics and relationships among key topics, is necessary. However, understanding and describing literature is challenging, considering its volume and variety. Establishing a common ground for central concepts is essential for science. To clarify key research topics on the big data-driven digital transformation, we carry out a comprehensive literature review by performing text mining of 439 articles. Text mining is applied to learn and identify specific topics, and the suggested key references are manually reviewed to develop a state-of-the-art overview. A total of 10 key research topics and relationships among the topics are identified. This study contributes to clarifying a systematized view of dispersed studies on big data-driven digital transformation across multiple disciplines and encourages further academic discussions and industrial transformation.