Planning and scheduling without a co-bot management system is hard. Before choosing to implement BINOCS, many labs spend months or even years investing in methods to make their manual processes more manageable. Here we use some common examples to illustrate how importing a legacy system is often...
One of the tricks used by the screenplay writers of the 1960s Star Trek TV series to show that Mr. Spock was an intellectual badass was to have him make calculations to a ridiculous degree of accuracy. This ludicrous precision made Mr. Spock legendary, but...
‘With which systems do you interface?’ might be one of the most asked questions whenever IT executives enter software evaluation discussions. When IT executives ask the question ‘with which systems do you interface’, what they're really asking is: ‘how will you make sure the interface...
Binocs is pleased to announce the appointment of Akshay Peer (Ph.D.). As a co-founder of TrakCel, Akshay has spent his last 8 years working closely with a large number of CGT developers and associated organizations. He was instrumental in growing the company from 2 employees...
A case for lab employee retention With the ever-growing focus on improving lab efficiency and service levels, it's, now more than ever, crucial not to lose sight of your most valuable asset: your people. A high turnover is particularly frustrating in labs because it takes quite some...
Binocs, part of bluecrux, is a fast-growing global company (with offices in Belgium and the US), driven by our mission and opportunity to lead a new category of software. No matter what team you work with, you will be welcomed, challenged, and supported to do...
Before joining the Binocs team in August, Adam spent 7 years as a consultant in the field of healthcare technology innovation in the UK. In the course of his career, he has helped clients to enhance their digital products for the personal health market and, as a result, has become increasingly involved in developing user experience (UX) strategy. Here he reviews the background to the EPIC...
In the coming months, Boston Consulting Group will be guiding laboratory representatives from all over the world through a "lab of the future" demo setup in the National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (Nibrt), Ireland. From innovative ways to use RFID for sample reception and...
Transforming your lab to a lean laboratory Transforming your lab to a lean laboratory can result in staggering productivity gains ranging from 20% to 80% and improve your customer service levels drastically. Many Binocs clients went through a lean lab exercise in the past. More often than...
It doesn’t matter what you implement, as long as you do it agile, it’s fine. That’s the tenor that spreads across many companies nowadays. However, when I talk to clients, they seem to struggle with giving the agile framework theory from their training course the right...
A very interesting article by Mark Mortensen and Heidi Gardner about organizations where senior managers and team leaders are increasingly frustrated by conflicts arising from what is referred to as multiteaming—having their people assigned to multiple projects simultaneously. With Binocs we share their vision. We have...
Scarce resources in organizations There is a growing shortage of skilled knowledge workers, or “gold collar” workers. The inability to find and maintain enough engineers, programmers, systems designers, scientists and chemists is a serious threat to profitability and growth— especially for project-driven organizations in the information...
May 21st, 2019 was a big day for us, not only because it was the first day of the Binocs user meeting. It was also the day on which we unveiled our newest component: The Binocs performance Twin. The Binocs Performance Twin is a configurable platform...
Business context We work with Planisware as a Project Portfolio Management platform. Although quite complex, our PMO and project managers succeed in keeping an overview of the most important projects. The delivery teams have no access to Planisware. It helps for the prioritization and decision making, except...
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What is PPM software? I recently stumbled upon a very interesting blog by Vilmos Rajda. He was a believer of the magic bullet project portfolio management sales people promised it to be. But after years of experience he came out a little disillusioned. In his blog he...
Christmas and New year pulled me away from the day-to-day rush and that was inspiring. The past three years, I focused on how organizations can improve resource utilization, especially for knowledge workers in environments such as engineering, R&D, quality and regulatory operations. In all of our implementations, we have setup...
A big part of change management in a project concerns overcoming resistance to the “new way of working”. Typically change management aware project teams take the following 3-step approach: Talk to people. List and acknowledge concerns and reasons for push back. Go through the list...
Although it’s pretty common for software applications nowadays, new website visitors that are exploring the potential of Binocs don’t have the possibility to log into an empty Binocs environment and just play around. It’s not that it’s technically a big deal for us to set up such...
Through casual conversations with customers and watching users interact with Binocs, one thing became very clear recently: We could make major improvements on the way users add extra (user configurable) information to Binocs objects. We dug in deeper. We asked a lot of questions. We...
Today, we can search through the entirety of human knowledge in less than one second, but can you search the entirety of the knowledge your company has created? A recent McKinsey report showed that knowledge workers spend an average of 20% of their time every week searching...
