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Many labs' budgets and staff time to prepare documents and presentations are quite limited. One way to make the most of this time may be to revise and update existing print documents for posting on company websites. By taking advantage of the unique
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Turning your researchers into consultants for your customers has at least three advantages. First, in ever more fierce global competition, your firm is selling not just a product but a product and technical service. Your customers will be speaking to
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When it comes to clothes, University of California, Berkeley researchers have given new meaning to the term "power suit." They have created energy-scavenging nanofibers that could one day be woven into clothing and textiles. "This technology could ev
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I've been rereading some of Peter Drucker's books on management. Even though some of these books are over thirty years old, Drucker was quite prescient in discussing trends shaping the business world and the results of these trends. Many of these res
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For half a century, Peter Drucker has been the gold standard by which management consultants are judged. He was the first to recognize that management is a discipline worthy of deep study. Some of his remarks in an interview published in the January
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Many laboratory professionals have difficulty in writing reports. The process often takes longer than it should with the result being a poorly written report. This problem are often most severe for lab professionals with English being their second la
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Different industries will recover from the recession at different rates. So in addition to monitoring general economic news, company managers – including lab managers – must closely track business trends in their own industry. The World Chemical Outl
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An error in the January "Lab Management" article, "The Online Lab Manager needs to be corrected. This correction has been made in the online version of When Growth Stalls. The second paragraph of the section "LIMS" should read: One concern that some
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There are many reasons why projects fail and this will be the subject of my next blog. Right now we'll talk about why you might want to make projects fail early and how you can design projects to for early failure. This seems crazy but there is metho
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Operating labs more efficiently is a constant goal for laboratory managers. The current recession has added to the pressure to cut costs. At large companies reasons for high cost often include a complex organization and a consensus-driven culture. Du
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Laboratory management matters even if lab managers are largely unsung heroes in science history. The third word in the title of this blog is a verb representing this opinion. It can also be a noun reflecting the many matters or aspects of lab managem
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