Logbook
Logbook provides companies and their R&D teams with a transparent, real time tool to ensure best practice R&D planning and reporting to management and R&D Tax legislative compliance.
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Please forward any queries regarding the Logbook application to support@rndready.com.
What is Logbook?
Logbook provides you with the tools you need to easily document your projects. The benefits of Logbook include expanding your organisation’s proprietary Knowledge Base, securing and protecting your Intellectual Property (IP), protecting your organisation against “brain drain,” and establishing the eligibility of R&D activities for R&D Tax Incentive claims.
When used consistently, Logbook captures contemporaneous evidence of R&D Activity, builds a timeline of significant outcomes and project milestones, collects and organises vital documentation, and tracks the time and resources invested in R&D in each of your R&D, Projects, Activities, and Tasks.
Logbook is designed to accommodate the complex, sometimes messy realities of pursuing dynamic R&D, Product Development, and Technology Development, whether in a for-profit commercial environment, in public or privately-funded research labs, or in institutions of higher education.
The powerful database behind Logbook enables Research Directors, Principal Investigators, or Managers to track progress, costs, and performance, and identify blockers and risks. It also does away with the never-ending struggle to collect supporting documentation for R&D Tax Incentive claims available to companies.
It makes applying for Grants easier by putting supporting documents and activity records at your fingertips, and simplifies responding to compliance requirements for Grants programs.
The invaluable records created by Logbook can also be used to settle Scientific Integrity issues and establish priority in intellectual property disputes.
How does Logbook work?
Logbook works by collecting daily time and activity logs from those participating in a project. A simple, expertly-designed user interface means it only takes a few moments. The time log includes a brief statement of what the respondent did each day on their assigned projects, and allows the respondent to upload supporting documentation.
Behind the scenes, Logbook collates the time record, activity response, the Project or Activity that the activity is part of, and other data to form a complete picture of each project.
As a Project progresses, it may be useful to dynamically add sub-projects or Activities (each called a Child Project) to ensure that the Logbook continues to record activity in a meaningful context; this is easily accomplished. The manager simply creates a new sub-project or activity, nominates the original project as the Parent Project, and assigns individual participants to record their time and activity under the new heading. All records of Child Projects are aggregated under the Parent Project see the complete picture.
Using Logbook consistently and conscientiously is the key to obtaining the best results and realising the full range of its invaluable benefits. Logbook’s support documentation provides examples of the best ways to configure and use Logbook. The support documentation also includes examples of best-practices for recording your activities, and creating professional documentation.
