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Joe Byrne

Joe Byrne
Joe Byrne is the CEO of Cognidox. With a career spanning medical device start-ups and fortune 500 companies, Joe has over 25 years of experience in the medical device and high-tech product development industries. With extensive experience in scaling businesses, process improvement, quality, medical devices and product development, Joe is a regular contributor to the Cognidox DMS Insights blog where he shares expertise on scaling and streamlining the entire product development cycle, empowering enterprises to achieve governance, compliance, and rigour.

Recent Posts

3 Product Development Fails that cost a fortune (and a space craft)

We all make mistakes, but when a product development process fails it can have far-reaching financial and comp...

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7 tips for designing an effective Business Process Map

Business Process Maps are a key part of any Company Management System. They are the flow diagrams that help yo...

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5 Reasons to Invest in a Company Management System

There are many competing demands on the attention and resources of a growing business, but investing in the ri...

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ONEDRIVE VS SHAREPOINT AS DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

What is the best document management solution for you and your business, One Drive for Business or SharePoint?...

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Why the FDA want Proactive Quality Management Systems

Reports from the U.S. tell us the FDA is continuing to prioritise Proactive Quality Management in the medical ...

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How to Build a QMS Your Team Will Actually want to Use

One of the main challenges of implementing a Quality Management System (QMS) is ensuring it is actually used f...

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4 sure signs you need to start Business Process Mapping

Business Process Mapping could be the first step you take towards creating a more efficient, profitable and qu...

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All You Really Need For Xmas is a Competitive Advantage

As we approach the end of 2018 with all its political and economic earthquakes, how can your high tech company...

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Why your Business Management System should be graphical

Adopting a Business Management System (BMS) is a well-established way to manage and control all the processes ...

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4 ways to fix a failing product development process with an agile tool-kit

A failing product development process can cost your sanity, your company’s reputation, and a lot of money. In ...

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Visualising Risk-Based Thinking in a Quality Management System

If you’ve been focused on improving your company’s Quality Management System it’s likely you will have encount...

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Late again? How to conquer the biggest challenge in product development

Delays are the biggest challenge for any product development cycle, they annoy clients, they sap the creative ...

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No more mavericks: Better QA through collaboration

It’s a cliche that good collaboration and teamwork maximises productivity. But in the high tech product develo...

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Is your QMS just for ISO certification?

Is ISO certification the only reward you’ll receive for jumping through all those QMS hoops? And is it really ...

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Burning money in the product development process? Don’t get wasted

Are you wasting money in a messy product development process? Are you constantly losing sight of your prioriti...

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5 ways Business Process Modeling can transform your company

For companies in the high tech sector, where time is precious and resources costly, a single mistake can be ve...

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How digital signatures can help secure regulatory compliance

Digital signatures are proving valuable tools for businesses developing products for release in highly regulat...

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The product management challenge - when, who and how

The early stages of any start-up are critical to the overall success of the business. In product development, ...

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Tame the Product Development Cycle with a Lean DMS

In the white heat of the product development cycle there is always the potential for chaos. And high tech busi...

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How a DMS helps you get the most out of external collaborators

Good collaboration is at the heart of business success. And with the vast array of digital tools available to ...

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Effective product development with phase-gate control and a DMS

One of the hallmarks of innovative organisations is that they are very good at developing ideas into successfu...

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Successful exits with cognidox

At a time of innovation and increasing traction in IoT, the recent acquisition of S3 Semiconductors by Adesto ...

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6 ways to improve product release management

Most high tech companies have multiple products. And most products combine different project deliverables - ha...

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Is your information safe? Document security in the information age

Most people think of document security only in relation to highly sensitive documents. However, the security o...

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Are your ISO inspections painful? How to make your QMS really useful

Many quality managers find that as an ISO audit approaches, their stress levels increase. Are all the procedur...

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Improving product development productivity with DMS version control

Raising your productivity levels can improve your delivery to customers and your profitability. Productivity i...

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How to evaluate a document management system

A document management system (DMS) can measurably improve your productivity and efficiency. A good DMS helps m...

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7 questions to ask before choosing your DMS provider

If you’re new to document management systems (DMS), how do you know what to look for when choosing the right p...

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How a document management system contributes to a lean business model

Lean is a philosophy, a theory that acts as a guiding principle for continuous improvement and customer focus ...

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