Asset management includes concepts such as inventory data management, productivity management, remote instrument monitoring and diagnostics and asset lifecycle management. In this webinar you will learn about Agilent's asset management tools and the value they can bring to your lab.

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Running out of time or money is something most of us strive to avoid. In business, as in life, the goal is to save as much of both as you can. This month we look at a few ways to achieve that goal in your lab. Let’s start with time.

In order to increase efficiency, many companies today are under pressure to improve their time management practices.

Problem: Researchers and scientists generate and collect vast amounts of data in their work, whether they are running experiments in the lab or surveying and interviewing people on the street. Researchers typically don’t deal with their research outputs until towards the end of the research cycle, when poor organization and data management can be difficult to manage and address, but causes the most problems. Poor data management results in experiments that are harder to replicate and findings that may be called into question. Papers can be retracted, careers impacted and ultimately science can suffer. When researchers move on they may pass their work to others in their research group, where poor data management results in the group inheriting indecipherable written notes they cannot use.

The latest equipment, instrument and system introductions to the laboratory market.

Lynn V Meek, professor and foundation director of the LH Martin Institute at the University of Melbourne recently spoke about the main issues facing research management around the world.

Much has been written about the business benefits of outsourcing “noncore” activities, and this approach is now well-established in most chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotech companies. By concentrating on core areas and working with specialists for other tasks, costs are better managed, efficiency is boosted, and ROI (return on investment) is increased.

Human behavior is difficult to figure out. For example, take the way we all tend to treat “priorities.” We all have them, and we instinctively know that some of them are much more important than others. Such as our families. The people we love. That novel we’d like to write. That project we’d like to tackle that could lead to a cure for cancer.

As research funding from the National Institutes of Health and other federal agencies shrinks, cooperation among the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Northwestern University and the University of Chicago is expanding.

This ACS skill builder video reveals some of the keys to overcoming the challenges of writing a successful research proposal.

Research at  Emory University’s Goizueta Business School suggests that hard economic times may positively influence young people.