LIMS Implementation: “Big Bang” or “Phased” Approach

Congratulations!  Your laboratory organization has gone through the process of documenting your lab processes, workflows, and data flows as well as your lab and business needs.  You have leveraged all this information to drive your laboratory informatics system selection process and you have chosen a commercial off the shelf Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).  The hard part is over.  No more big decisions to make.  Right?  Unfortunately this is not the case.  There will be many more decisions to make and plenty of work to be done before your LIMS is up and running and everyone in the lab organization is using and benefiting from the system.

One of the first decisions you are going to need to make is… [ Read More ]