When one thinks about scientific laboratory, the challenges that come to mind are techniques or difficult procedures but according to the survey conducted by lab automation group, here are the top challenges listed as percentage of importance by the applicants.
This is interesting because among the major challenges is money. The staffing may also be related to money since people costs are the major costs in any organization. The fact is that all the others that are deemed important like automation, computational and others like instrumentation are not so significant.
When a scientists thinks about their lab maybe they need to understand business as much as they understand science!