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Title: Justifying LIMS Acquisition within Your Organization

Edition: First Edition

Authors for citation: Joe Liscouski, Shawn E. Douglas

License for content: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

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The table of contents for Justifying LIMS Acquisition within Your Organization is as follows:


1. Introduction to LIMS and LIMS acquisition
1.1 What is a laboratory information management system (LIMS)?
1.2 What are the alternatives to a LIMS?
1.3 LIMS acquisition then
1.4 LIMS acquisition today
1.5 Why a LIMS matters
2. Economic and practical justifications for a LIMS
2.1 Organizational justifications: Why is it important?
2.2 Economic considerations and justifications
2.2.1 Factors that can offset costs
2.3 Practical considerations and justifications
2.3.1 Tangible benefits
2.3.2 Intangible benefits
3. Management buy-in
3.1 The importance of manager (and stakeholder) buy-in
3.2 Pitching the LIMS project
3.3 Developing a cheat sheet for management
4. Closing remarks
Appendix 1. Cost-benefit spreadsheets
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