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Building Successful Information Systems: Five Best Practices to Ensure Organizational Effectiveness and Profitability is a 10-chapter book published by the Business Expert Press in 2012 and written by Michael J. Savoie, the Director of the Center for Information Technology and Management in the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas, Dallas. To optimize the use of computer systems for management purposes, the author advises managers to first understand their own business processes and information flows - then the company can apply the author's model, the "five rights of data," to build an effective system: the right data, in the right place, at the right time, reaching the right person, in the right format. By creating a strong system aligned with a company's specific information flow, managers can use information systems to support competitive strategy. The author illustrates this process through real-world examples and provides practical tools for corporate leaders. Chapter 3, What Constitutes the Right Data? (10 pages), takes a closer look at the first step in the model of "data rights," getting the right data. Instead of trying to capture all imaginable data ("big data"), businesses need to be smart about identifying what data will actually help them achieve their strategic goals. Managers can begin to determine how to access the right data by creating a map to document how information flows in an organization, which will show any breakdowns that currently require human "workarounds." He provides a real-world example of a company whose information map exposed an inefficient system.

• Data management
• Information systems