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Title: Justifying LIMS Acquisition and Deployment 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 and Deployment within Your Organization is as follows:

1. Introduction to LIMS and its acquisition and deployment

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 now

1.5 Why a LIMS matters

2. Economic and practical justifications for a LIMS

2.1 Organizational justifications: Why is it important?

2.1.1 Why is acquiring a LIMS important to meeting the goals of your lab?

2.1.2 What problems does the LIMS solve that currently affect your lab?

2.1.3 What operational, financial, and personnel improvements do you expect to see in your lab because of LIMS implementation?

2.1.4 Why is this important to the larger organization, as well as those outside the lab?

2.2 Economic considerations and justifications

2.2.1 On-premises vs. cloud LIMS

2.2.2 Common and add-on costs

2.2.3 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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