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Whose Lab Kung Fu is Best?: In the movies no single person ever had the best Kung-Fu right from the start of the film. There were strikes on both sides and you saw that they quickly learned the strengths and weaknesses about themselves and their opponent. read more
Jon Wetzel | lab | lab manager
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Being An Instrument of Change: Ask your colleague, “How can I make it easier for you when transferring over these products?” By doing this you are making the job easier for you and for them. How? read more
Jon Wetzel | change management | leadership
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Top 5 things You Need to Know about Inventory: Inventory is one of the primary wastes in lean thinking and is also the hardest for people to change their mindset about. I’ve compiled my list of the top 5 items you need to know in order to understand the downfall of having Inventory laying around. read more
Jon Wetzel
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Today’s Countermeasure is Tomorrow’s Standard: Areas of rapid growth and change cycle their “standard” processes quickly. Those that do manufacturing are much slower at developing countermeasures because of the checks and balances that need to be taken into consideration during implementation. read more
Jon Wetzel | processes | process change
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Process Mapping: Where am I NOW?: If you don’t know where you are or where you’re going then why are you surprised when you get lost? In today’s world we KNOW the benefits of Google Maps or having a GPS in our cars so why aren’t we using process maps to guide our business improvements? read more
Jon Wetzel | process maps | processes
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Putting “Quality” Back into Your QMS: From a high level perspective a Quality Management System (QMS) is great but to the lab workers it’s more like a pile of “red tape” that stops them from doing or improving their work. Here’s what you can do to put the “Quality” back into your QMS. read more
Jon Wetzel | Quality Management System | QMS
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Are You a Good Worker or a GREAT Leader?: I’ve had many a discussion over the past week with my colleagues about what makes a lean system work? The answer every time comes back to a culture of leadership. read more
Jon Wetzel | leadership | Lean
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“Can you Hear me Now?” Why Silo Mentality is Crippling your Lab: How often have you been in the situation where you’ve identified a problem upstream or downstream of your part of the process and been told by your boss “I’ll bring it up at the monthly operations meeting.” The problem exists NOW, you’ve identified there’s an issue that needs to be addressed however you can’t just go to the person in the other department to talk about it. read more
Jon Wetzel | silos | organisational structure
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Your Sample ID’s are Too Complex – Stop the Insanity: Most of us started in a lab with one or two other techs labeling our tubes with a fine tip Sharpie marker and using an internal code that made it understandable to our small group of people. “MTO -15” meant Maybe This One sample 15 while testing a new compound or “12654A2-1” meant sample 12654, A = Tumor, 2 = DNA, and 1 = 1st isolation. read more
Jon Wetzel | pharmaceutical IT systems | LIMS
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Global Pharmaceutical Distribution 2012
Venue to be Confirmed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Cool Chain Logistics 2013
Congress Center Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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Information Governance & eDiscovery for Pharma, Biotech and Medical Devices
London, UK
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Cold Chain Global Forum 2012
Chicago, IL
September 24- 28, 2012
Articles
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Contributor: Andrea Charles
Global Clinical Outsourcing Forum – Avoids Death by PowerPoint with New Format – Round Up: GCOF took brave step this year and was un-conferenced. The 3rd Annual Global Cli... read more
Tags: clinical outsourcing | global clinical outsourcing | Global Clinical Outsourcing Forum
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Contributor: Joe Liscouski
Smooth the Path to Integration in Informatics: With an increasing emphasis on informatics and the potential to better organize and manage... read more
Tags: Informatics | Standards | integration
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Contributor: Niamh Madigan
6 Tips to Achieving the Impossible in the Face of Change: Let’s face it, we live in a world that is constantly changing and nowhere ... read more
Tags: change | impossible | possible
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Contributor: Runa Mookerjee
US Healthcare Regulation, Technology Advancements Spell Boom for Outsourcing: Advancements in healthcare technology, apart from improvement of quality of care, are almo... read more
Tags: electronic medical record | EMR | electronic health record
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Contributor: James Harris
Biosimilars Landscape and FDA Regulatory Expectations: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has estimated that the United States could save $25 ... read more
Tags: biosimilars | FDA | FDA regulatory expectations
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