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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. In Chapter 5, When Is the Right Time? (8 pages), the author explores the third step in his model, the timing of data delivery. While constant and immediate information access is common in today's business environment, it is also expensive, more vulnerable to security breaches, and risks information overload for employees. The author posits that a good information system should provide information as quickly as needed while allowing for system maintenance and data validation. Therefore, some companies may rightly decide not to provide "24/7" access. As the timeliness of data increases, so do the costs associated with data delivery, namely the information infrastructure required to enable faster data transfer and processing and the verification process to ensure accuracy.

• Data management
• Information systems