Laboratory Setup Benefits Realisation Plan
This is a practical guide to building a benefits realisation plan for a laboratory setup project — how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised, adapted to the realities of setting up a laboratory or research facility.
What a Benefits Realisation Plan is
A benefits realisation plan is how the project’s benefits will be measured and actually realised. For the full concept and how it works in general, see Benefits Realization. On a laboratory setup project it plays the same role, tuned to this kind of work.
Why it matters for a Laboratory Setup project
Laboratory Setup projects live or die on setting up a laboratory or research facility. A well-built benefits realisation plan gives the team a shared, explicit reference for exactly that — reducing ambiguity, aligning stakeholders, and making problems visible early enough to act. Skipping it, or doing it generically, is how laboratory setup projects drift into avoidable delay and cost.
What to include
- Target benefits
- Metrics / KPIs
- Baseline values
- Owner
- Realisation timeline
Laboratory Setup-specific considerations
Tailor the benefits realisation plan to the risks that most often derail laboratory setup projects:
- Equipment procurement
- Compliance and safety
- Validation
Example
On a real laboratory setup project, the benefits realisation plan would be shaped by setting up a laboratory or research facility. In particular, it should explicitly account for the project’s biggest risks — equipment procurement, compliance and safety, validation — rather than treating them as afterthoughts.