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

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Business process modeling (BPM) helps companies in regulated, high-tech sectors improve efficiency, reduce err...

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For companies operating in highly regulated sectors like medical devices, biotech, and pharma, digital signatu...

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New version enables faster, simpler intranet creation and easier FDA record compliance Cambridge, UK, 20 Septe...

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

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

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

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

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

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Cambridge, UK, 1 August 2018 - Cognidox, the leading provider of document management solutions for the high-te...

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

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

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

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

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

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One of the top issues in all Enterprise Software is that no matter how good the software tool is, unless it is...

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

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4 steps to getting ISO9001 ready Achieving ISO9001 compliance can appear daunting, but while it requires a sig...

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Cambridge, 18 October 2017 - Cognidox today announced that Paul Walsh, its co-founder and CEO passed away on O...

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Managing CAD product data is no easy task. For engineering and product teams working with high-value assemblie...

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Your documents are your everything. Contracts, client details, employee details, invoices, minutes of meetings...

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The CEO, CFO, COO of a company: the people in charge, the brains behind the whole organisation. If not totally...

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Today we released version 1.7 of our OfficeToPDF open source project for PDF conversion. You can read more abo...

We made CognDox 9.0.0 available for download on May 4th and announced it to the world on May 9th - there's a c...

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For the past several months we've published a series of blog posts on the application of Risk-based Thinking f...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part XI, please click here. This is the final part in our serie...

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When gaining a quality badge is the primary objective, there is a temptation to just think about meeting the m...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part X, please click here. If you have been reading this blog r...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part IX, please click here. In this and the following two posts...

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How to apply Risk-based Thinking to Quality Processes - a Summary There are twelve posts in this series. To re...

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RISK MANAGEMENT METHODOLOGY FOR QUALITY MANAGEMENT Steps 4-6 in the method There are twelve posts in this seri...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part VI, please click here. Steps 1-3 in the method If you have...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part V, please click here. Risk based thinking is the new 'prev...

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SO 31000 Risk management techniques - continued Attributes of a selection of risk assessment tools There are t...

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Most Quality Control and Quality Assurance methods are concerned with business process mapping as a way of und...

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ISO 31000 Risk management techniques - continued There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part III, plea...

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ISO 31000 Risk management techniques Attributes of a selection of risk assessment tools If you haven't yet rea...

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ISO 31000 Risk management techniques: A selection of risk assessment tools you might like to consider Part 1 i...

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A gQMS will help with internal and external auditing requirements - leading to ISO certification in less time ...

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We’ve made a new release (1.5) of our OfficeToPDF open source project and pushed the code to its usual home on...

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Documented information in a Quality Management System (QMS) - and why it's time for a radical overhaul of how ...

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Why taking a risk-based approach is a requirement of ISO 9001 Risk-based thinking is a sore point among many Q...

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What 'documented information' is required by ISO 9001:2015? There are twelve posts in this series. To read Par...

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There are twelve posts in this series. To read Part I, please click here. Risk-based thinking and the resultin...

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How will the new version affect ISO 9001:2008 registrations? According to BSI, the new standard, ISO 9001:2015...

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Documentation Requirements set out in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 For those of you who are currently 'transitioning' to...

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Information Security Risk Assessments in ISO/IEC 27001:2013 ISO/IEC 27001:2013 aligns with the principles and ...

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The short answer is 'A lot more than many professionals currently think'. To start, though, the basic facts: I...

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We've made a new release (1.4) of our OfficeToPDF open source project and pushed the code to its usual home on...

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It's one thing to ask whether companies truly trust their employees with company information, but I think most...

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I saw an article today whose headline ("Remember macro viruses? Infected Word and Excel files? They're back......

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Sorry to state the obvious, but you receive a lot of emails and your number of unread messages only ever seems...

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LinkedIn has opened its publishing platform called LinkedIn Publish to the rest of us that are not "Influencer...

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ISO 9001:2008 is not prescriptive - it provides a framework and good advice but generally leaves it up to the ...

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