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Managing Records During M&A You just been told that your job has been eliminated because the company sold your division. They want you to stay around for another few weeks to help with the transition. Since they offered you a good separation package, you are only mildly angry. Of course you are upset and somewhat [...]  In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...] The Fight for Space I’m sure most of you have run into a situation that I’m facing. I bought a new laptop 2 years ago with a 90 GB hard drive. Actually you only get 88+ GB of usable space out of this kind of drive. I could have bought a bigger drive, but remember [...] The subject of raw data has crept into the vocabulary of the media recently with alleged wrong doings amongst scientists in connection with data related to climate change. The matter has unsurprisingly been dubbed ‘climategate’ and is currently chalking up over 28,000,000 hits on Google. The underlying issues, if they are real, are political, and [...] It’s hardly the most exciting subject, but long term retention is one of those topics that seem to lurk in the background whenever the subject of electronic records comes up. With several centuries experience behind us, we’ve learned quite a bit about preserving paper records; Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his notes over 500 years ago, [...] |
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