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Lean and Operational Excellence Articles and Reports

Lean Thinking for LaboratoriesThe focus of a lean laboratory is to test samples in the most efficient way possible in terms of cost, or speed, or both. Although most of the key principles of lean apply in labs, the specific challenges facing laboratories require significant adaptation of standard lean tools.


ERP Life Cycle Articles and Reports

Organisational Change Management (OCM) is a critical component of many successful ERP projects. Despite this, the term Change Management is one which is not well understood by many ERP practitioners or by most ERP users. There is often a general sense that it covers the softer, people-related issues that arise during ERP implementation projects and that as a result, OCM itself is an ill-defined and woolly concept.