Decision-Making & Planning
How the technical or lab manager anticipates and responds to the constant and turbulent change that envelops an organization is frequently the difference between commercial and personal success and failure. Most technical and business people disli
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Long considered a back-office function, procurement has emerged as an important asset in effective lab management.
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The end of the year is a good time to review your companys holiday pay practices.
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To find and hire the best job candidates, lab managers need to employ a formal, deliberative process.
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Candidates answer questions about innovation, climate change, energy, education, national security, pandemics and biosecurity, genetics, stem cells, ocean health, water, space, scientific integrity, research, and health.
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Strategic outsourcing of noncore activities can maximize resources while increasing the quality of products and services.
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Instead of using gut feel or other haphazard means, Lyndsay Swinton (Management for the Rest of Us, www.mftrou.com) suggests using Kurt Lewins Force Field Analysis as simple yet effective method to improve your decision making ability.
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The Laboratory Products Association has published its 2008 North American Survey of Laboratory Purchasing Trends. Despite the tight economy, the lab products market does not seem to be adversely impacted at the moment. Hiring of lab personnel is increasing as is spending in all product categories.
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Comprising the infrastructure for the Information Age, cyberinfrastructure the organized aggregate of information technologies, organizations, and human resources is essential for future research advancement and discovery.
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Here are three principles to help managers climb the strategic summit.
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New research shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers cite fewer, newer papers
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While working with a customers project manager, preparing to create the plan for their upcoming LIMS project, I was asked how we know how much to put into the first phase so we could meet the project deadline. My answer was that we could put as littl
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