When it comes to purchasing and implementing laboratory systems’ software, return on investment is inevitably one of the key drivers. The up-front requirements to justify the expenditure are usually aligned to process improvement and productivity. In the case of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, there’s usually a secondary, and unquantifiable requirement about improving knowledge management [...]

Daring to mention ‘Six Sigma’ and ‘laboratory’ in the same sentence can be the precursor to a lively discussion. For most scientists, the word quality is generally associated with laboratory output, not necessarily the process that generates the output. Nevertheless, we’ve been talking about workflow for years, but this is often in the [...]