Lab Management
By using metrics effectively, laboratory managers can better focus their R&D efforts and be more effective in improving their firms' sales and profitability. This is essential, now more than ever, given the slow recovery from the "Great Recession."
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Laboratory benchmarking entails comparing the quality of one lab to measures taken from a range of other laboratories, or from the standard bearers. Its the details involved in the benchmarking process, however, that can be maddening.
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Listening to President Obama's State of the Union speech last night prompted me to think about leadership and laboratory management. I found his theme of support for American innovation encouraging but without offering specifics. "The first
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The Laboratory Products Association has announced the release of its 2011 North American Survey of Laboratory Purchasing Trends.
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Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions, has acquired American Analytical Chemistry Laboratories Corp (AACL), a testing, analytics and research company focusing on food, cosmeceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
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“Maximizing profits” and “competing for market share” are not typical phrases most people associate with laboratories. Right? Well, maybe they should be.
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Lab managers can reduce overhead costs by reducing unnecessary bureaucracy. A rough rule of thumb is that larger laboratories tend to have more bureaucracy. Staff members often find their productivity increases substantially when they change jobs and
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Nearly 900 new jobs; university collaborations including the Center for Advanced Energy Studies; more than $50 million in laboratory investments; business volume nearly doubling to $1 billion; unprecedented input for the nation's energy agenda. After
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A talk on Intellectual Property What It Is and How to Protect It will be featured at an Entrepreneurs Foundation Workshop to be held at the U.S. Department of Energys Brookhaven National Laboratory on Monday, January 24, from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
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Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Nasdaq: SIAL) announced December 30 that it has acquired all outstanding shares of Cerilliant Corporation of Round Rock, Texas to strengthen the Companys analytical chemistry product portfolio and to continue to deliver on
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On December 16, 2010, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Gary Locke presented five U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest honor for organizational innovation and performa
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