Run Your Lab Like a Business – Part 2
In the first blog post, we explored the importance of adopting a business approach in laboratory operations. Building on that foundation, we now turn our attention to maximising efficiency, measuring progress, and how a digital solution LIMS helps to achieve these goals.
Whichever combination of ‘good’, ‘fast,’ or ‘cheap’ a lab opts to execute, it will make little progress if it lacks ways to reorganise resources to maximise efficiency. Some of the laboratories are an information intensive operation. Not only does the technology employed produce, enormous quantities of data, but all of that data needs to be tracked back to specific samples, associated with different projects, provided by certain. These complex connections and relationships cannot be held in someone’s head, or even in shared Google docs or spreadsheets.
