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8 Tips for Effective SOP Documentation

There are many reasons why organisations need to document their SOPs. From ensuring uniformity in end products...

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The Pros and Cons of Phase Gate Processes in New Product Development

Will a phase gate process hold back or enhance your new product development? What are the pros and cons of sta...

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The Evolution of Quality Management Systems: A Path to Business Growth

A focus on a quality management system shouldn’t just mean a ‘box ticking’ exercise for an organisation. And i...

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The Pros and Cons of Virtual Collaboration for Product Innovation

Colocation was one of the central tenets of the Agile manifesto, but times have changed. With all the new digi...

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The Power of eQMS: Elevating Your Quality Management System

If you want to develop a Quality Management System that meets the regulation and powers your commercial succes...

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12 Virtual Team Collaboration Tool Issues to Address

As your computer waits to load up Teams, Zoom, Slack, Accello and countless other collaboration apps every mor...

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The Art of Accidental Innovation: Tales of Discovery and Success

Can product innovation really happen by accident? Penicillin, Viagra and the humble Post-It note were all famo...

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7 Common Mistakes in Business Process Modelling Projects

Companies often embark on business process modelling projects with the best of intentions. Modelling may be a ...

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Knowledge Through Information Management in ISO 9001- part II

In Part 1 of this series we considered the problem of reinvention, the unstructured nature of information, and...

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Success Story: Cognidox Client DisplayLink Acquired for $407M

The US human interface company, Snyaptics Inc announced this week that they are acquiring DisplayLink Corp in ...

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Navigating Remote Collaboration Challenges in the Covid-19 Era

One of the things Covid-19 has shown us, is that the digital agility of an organisation can mean the differenc...

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Navigating NPD to NPI: The Power of Flexible Stage Gating

Developing a robust stage gate process is a vital part of many new product development (NPD) and introduction ...

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8 Essential Drivers for Successful New Product Development

For most high tech companies, developing profitable new products is their entire reason for being.

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Understanding Organisational Knowledge in ISO 9001:2015

One of the areas included in the ISO 9001 :2015 is 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge. The stated requirement is: ...

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Mastering the NPI Process: Key Factors for Success

Managing an NPI process can be fraught with difficulty as each new initiative brings with it the potential for...

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Quality Management Lessons from NASA's Space Race

In 1969 quality management was truly the final frontier in the space race. As NASA engineers developed unique ...

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Enhancing Product Releases with an Extranet: 9 Key Strategies

Issuing a tech product release or a software update can be a challenging process. Handled badly it can result ...

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Quality Management Vs Compliance: Understanding the Key Differences

For many companies, compliance is, at best, regarded as a necessary evil, and at worst a never-ending ordeal. ...

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Closing the Scale-up Gap: Business Model Canvas Essentials

In part one of this series we argued that one key ingredient for a successful scale-up company is optimisation...

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Closing the Scale-up Process Gap: A Structured Approach

Our opening post on this theme introduced the problems that companies face as they transition from start-up to...

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Building an Effective QMS Your Team Will Love

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

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Closing the Process Gap: A Key Challenge for Scale-Up Companies

It seems everyone is talking about Scale-up companies these days. The term has been around since 2013 (see for...

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4 Signs You Need 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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The Power of Graphical Business Management Systems for SMEs

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

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Unlocking the Power of Visualising Risk-Based Thinking

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

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The Rising Threat of Whaling: Protecting Your Organisation from Fraud

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

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The Key to Efficient Audits: Graphical QMS and documented information

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

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Maximising Value from Documented Information in Your QMS

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

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Can You Trust Your Ex-Employees with Company Data?

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

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Enhancing Information Findability with Enterprise Search

Continuing the theme of projects that can change the way your company works, in this post we'll look at the to...

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Optimising Product Releases with CogniDox: A Guide for Efficiency

In this blog I want to start a new theme - projects that can change the way your company works. All companies ...

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Why SharePoint Deployments Fail: The Business vs IT Dilemma

The AIIM organisation has just published the results from their annual Microsoft SharePoint survey. The sample...

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The 'R' in CRM: Why Your Business Needs It

Here are five business scenarios that might benefit from a software solution:

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Why File Sharing is not Document Management

We spent a few hours this week looking at a couple of CRM software solutions and the features they offer.. We ...

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Unveiling XtraNet: Revolutionising Document Management and Control

We launched our new XtraNet product yesterday and there was a short interview about the new service over at th...

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Using a Web Archive Document Type for Quality Management Systems

Recently we announced a case study with a partner, Primilis, in which they used a CogniDox feature to implemen...

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Maximising Savings: Open Source CRM Solutions for Success

Gartner published one of their Hype Cycle reports for CRM Sales a few days back. There's a useful summary on t...

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The Importance of Product Management in Startups: Insights from a VC

Last night was the Cambridge Product Manager Network 'gala event' - a special meeting before the summer break ...

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The Open Source Business Model: Pricing Strategies and Success Secrets

For over a year, I've been following a great series of blog posts by Tarus Balog (founder and main mover of th...

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Insight into the $245 Billion Worldwide Enterprise Software Market

In a previous blog we threw around some total-size-of-market numbers. Today I see that Gartner has just releas...

The Importance of Document Management for Unassisted Support

A few days back I upgraded to version 4 of the Mozilla Firefox browser because I wanted to test the new user i...

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Enhancing Integration: CogniDox and Bugzilla 4.0 Integration Guide

You’re a software development leader who takes managing an application lifecycle seriously. You’ve spent time ...

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Market Domination Strategies for Startups: Insights from Dharmesh Shah

Dharmesh Shah is a serial entrepreneur who is currently involved with HubSpot.com. They have just announced $3...

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The Psychology of Software Pricing: A Masterful Overview

This month's Cambridge Product Management Network meeting covered the topic of software pricing. The presenter...

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Information Security Lessons from Wikileaks: A Closer Look at SIPRnet

The release of 260,000 US embassy messages by Wikileaks this week is certainly generating headlines. I don't k...

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The Importance of Software Risk Management and Source Code Access

There was an interesting piece of news this week from the NCC Group plc, an information assurance specialist t...

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The Search Dilemma: Lost Documents in the Digital Workspace

IT Reseller Magazine is today reporting a survey by Networked Planet (an Enterprise Search software company ba...

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On BizSpark and Microsoft Development

We recently released CogniDox 8.1 and amongst the new features was a CogniDox Word Add-in.

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Measuring the Benefits of Enterprise Software: Insights and Strategies

There was an interesting survey published just over a week ago - Axios Systems, an IT services management soft...

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Open Source Enterprise Search is a Hot Topic

We published a paper just two days ago on open source Enterprise Search tools such as Lucene/Solr and Xapian/F...

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Building Software in-House – Why?

I came across a survey by Cadence Design Systems, the electronic design automation (EDA) company, in which the...

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Unveiling the Truth: CMS Vendor Checklist Reactions

A month or so back one of the CMS vendors (Day Software AG) posted a blog entry in which they invited (as in t...

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Adopting a line of Miro source code

Miro, an open-source video aggregation site using VLC media player, has a novel idea for generating funds. The...

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