Knowledge Management Strategy Accelerates Discovery

Business and Technology Goals

A massive increase in resources has been allocated to new discovery and product development. The client currently generates a large amount of unstructured scientific information and intellectual property which remains housed in thousands of paper notebooks. The information is documented with varying degrees of detail and is primarily only available to those with anecdotal awareness that the information exists. With the introduction of hundreds of new scientists collaboration and efficiencies become all the more important.

Solution

An outcome based evaluation of key laboratory processes was conducted. It was determined that an Electronic Laboratory Network (ELN) will have a significant positive impact on the rate of discovery while meeting applicable legal and business requirements.

Benefits

The assessment united the vision of scientists and management in realizing the benefits of implementing an Electronic Laboratory Notebook. The client is moving forward with a pilot and will realize the following benefits from the implementation of ELN technology:

• Improved scientific information capture
• Improved productivity
• Time freed for research
• Project oversight
• Employee retention and motivation
• Reduced rework
• Collaboration
• Controlled data access
• Non-repudiation of data (FDA & Patent Protection)
• Improved analytics & data mining