A matrix for a LIMS with a strategic focus

✍ Scribed by R.D. McDowall

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 724 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1381-141X
• DOI: 10.1016/1381-141x(95)80017-w

✦ Synopsis

This article focuses on the impact that a laboratory information management system (LIMS) should make on both a laboratory and an organisation but rarely does. To be effective a system should deliver benefit to both the laboratory environment and the organisation. But how should this be designed? To overcome this problem a matrix is proposed, which will allow any LIMS to be developed with a strategic focus. The matrix can be used either as an aid to system implementation and deciding which applications the LIMS should interface with. Alternatively, the matrix can be a means of evaluating the effectiveness of existing applications and to chart their further development. The aim is to give analytical chemists, managers and computer scientists a tool to enable any LIMS to reach its true potential.