How to Move Fast Without Sacrificing Control in Laboratory Systems
Many laboratories face a constant challenge: balancing the need to move quickly – whether to bring new products and assays to market, adopt new technologies, or drive continuous process improvements – while managing the risks associated with the system changes required to support these innovations.
The question is: how can labs evolve their informatics systems quickly without losing control?
In practice, labs often sacrifice speed to protect system validation and maintain regulatory compliance, leading to the view that compliance is the enemy of progress. This perception creates hesitation around making even small system changes, due to concerns about triggering costly and time-consuming revalidation efforts. Over time, this caution becomes ingrained, pushing organizations toward an increasingly conservative approach, delaying updates, slowing the launch of new assays, postponing operational improvements, and ultimately increasing the risk of falling behind more agile competitors.
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