Today's world is undergoing unprecedented changes due to increased competition, globalization, demanding customers with diverse tastes and preferences. This growth could be attributed to the declining cost of acquiring and storing very large amounts of data arising from sources such as customer transactions in retail outlets, e-businesses, RFID tags for inventory tracking, email, and product reviews among others. Business Intelligence technology is a recent development in business decision-making, both strategic and tactical, and a key driver of profitability. Critical corporate decisions are now grounded on empirical data which constitute the basis of both descriptive and predictive analytics. The study sought to assess the influence of Business Intelligence technology on marketing strategies of large supermarkets in Nairobi. Supermarkets generate vast amounts of transactional data, which can comprise a source of value when appropriate BI technology is optimally deployed on them to extract potentially strategic information. The study targeted five large supermarkets. The study used a descriptive cross-sectional research design where a structured questionnaire was used to collect pertinent data. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and logistic regression analysis. The study results indicated minimal use of BI technology by large supermarkets in Nairobi county hence the influence of the same on marketing strategies was not extensive. However, the study established a statistically significant influence of certain aspects of BI technology on marketing strategy of large supermarkets in Nairobi. Despite lack of access to such data, supermarkets employed other components of BI technology such as data warehousing and market basket analysis which were used to some extent for market segmentation. The study recommends that supermarkets should widen their range of BI technologies and sources of data in order to enhance their marketing strategies. The study can be replicated in other service industries. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYStrategic marketing planning translates overall corporate strategy to specific marketing objectives and action plans for implementation. Kotler and Armstrong (1999) argue that company strategy should be concerned with serving the needs of important consumer groups, adding that marketing provides inputs to strategic planning by identifying attractive markets. Traditional, more systematic marketing approaches of data collection relying on a narrow set of data such as age, income and lifestyle are increasingly being replaced by more agile Business Intelligence (BI) technology able not only to gather larger amounts of more diverse data faster, but also generate deeper, broader and more accurate customer insights to inform marketing strategies in line with a turbulent environment (Constantiou & Kallinikos, 2015). It also provides predictive analysis to allow for timely and effective exploitation of emerging opportunities and avoidance of risk (Nketia, 2016). Firms today collect much larger volume...
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