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The Art of Measuring the ROI of ELNs - Keep it Real: Typical corporate business cases are created to demonstrate strategic alignment, define scope, identify risks, target resource requirements, obtain funds, and show the financial and operational benefits after the project has gone live, i.e. ROI. It’s this last set of measures that often remain elusive for ELNs, but are critical for project justification. read more
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Sustain Your ELN – Before You Start Your ELN: Change management can be found as a bullet under “critical success factors” in many Electronic Lab Notebook project charters. Touted as crucial in determining the success of an ELN, many agree in principle that change management is needed, but don’t know how to go about making it effective, tangible, and measurable. read more
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Peace in our Time? R&D and the IT Department: One of the consequences of the increasing convergence of science and technology is the nature of the relationship between R&D and IT. As scientists increasingly depend on information technology as an integral component of laboratory work, they become increasingly dependent on the IT infrastructure and IT resources. read more
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Management Buy-in and User Acceptance in an ELN Project: But the management commitment is also required throughout the implementation phases. Getting the balance right between hands-off and hands-on is critical; too much hands-off, and the project team and users get concerned whether management cares; too much hands-on and it can feel like interference and a lack of trust. read more
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Where Do the Ideas Come From?: When it comes to purchasing and implementing laboratory systems’ software, return on investment is inevitably one of the key drivers. The up-front requirements to justify the expenditure are usually aligned to process improvement and productivity often driven by a functional need to work with dispersed teams, across different sites, regions and time zones. But there’s usually a secondary, softer requirement aligned to return on investment, but more difficult to quantify, that alludes to an improvement in knowledge management within the organisation by making laboratory information explicit, accessible and reusable. read more
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What Every CRO Should Know When Becoming Fully Electronic: As the global CRO community studies how to most efficiently move to fully electronic business processes, there are numerous issues that must be addressed to assure secure global collaboration. These include identity trust, data integrity, regulatory compliance, and time and cost savings. read more
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Six Questions to Ask Before Investing in a Digital Identity or Digital Signature Solution: When evaluating any digital identity or digital signature solution, ask these questions. The answers will help determine if you’re about to get full value for this important decision read more
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Nobody Knows You’re a Dog: A few years ago, The New Yorker magazine published a cartoon of two dogs sitting in front of a computer monitor. One was explaining to the other: “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Given the regulated nature of the global biopharmaceutical industry, the explosion in global collaboration, and our reliance on the Internet, it is absolutely essential that we know and trust the identity of people on the other side of the screen. read more
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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
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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
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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
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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
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London, UK
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Cold Chain Global Forum 2012
Chicago, IL
September 24- 28, 2012
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