Without Adoption There is No Success! – Part 1

You hear it all the time, “The LIMS implementation project was a success!  It was on-time, within budget, and met the requirements.”  However, when you go back to the lab a month or so later and check with the scientists, technicians, and managers you find out that no one is using the new LIMS.  They just went back to their old spreadsheets, database, paper system or whatever.  So was the LIMS implementation project really a success?  The answer is an emphatic NO!  If the laboratory personnel and managers have not adopted the new LIMS and are not fully utilizing it, then the project was actually a failure.

So how do you attain high levels of system adoption and utilization?  Well, it is not a “hit or miss” type of thing nor is it “black magic”.  Rather, there are [ Read More ]