What Happened to Phase 2 of your LIMS Implementation?
It’s a funny thing but if you ask anyone who has been involved in the LIMS industry for any length of time, they will uniformly agree that Phase 2 of LIMS implementation projects rarely, if ever, come to fruition.
Is this because breaking a LIMS implementation into multiple phases is wrong? Not really. There are perfectly good reasons to do so like: lack of time, money or resources to do the full implementation in one go. Nor can you say that laboratories do not truly intend on fully completing all of the phases of their LIMS projects because they do. It’s just that it is very common that Phase 2 quietly never gets kicked off and over time it simply fades away.
I guess not getting to those Phase 2 requirements might not be all that terrible. Think about it. If the laboratory requirements that have been relegated to Phase 2 were all that important, then wouldn’t the lab scientist be up in arms when he noticed they weren’t there? Wouldn’t the lab supervisors complain about all the manual results and calculation checking they still had to perform? Wouldn’t the managers exclaim about their lack of information and lab KPIs? But that does not happen. The truth of the matter is too often the scientists, supervisors, and managers either put up with it or come up with less efficient work arounds.
Capabilities and Features You’re Missing
This is bad enough, but when you further look into what often is put off to Phase 2, the situation really becomes ugly.
