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Paul Walsh

Paul Walsh
Paul Walsh was one of the founders of Cognidox. After a period as an academic working in user experience (UX) research, Paul started a 25-year career in software development. He's worked for multinational telecom companies (Nortel), two $1B Cambridge companies (Ionica, Virata), and co-founded a couple of startup companies. His experience includes network management software, embedded software on silicon, enterprise software, and cloud computing.

Recent Posts

Understanding Document Management vs Document Control

For some companies simply managing their documentation is enough to support their business goals. But others n...

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8 Tips for Streamlining Your Document Review Process

How is the quality of your document review process affecting the speed and efficiency of the way you do busine...

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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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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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Building Operational Resilience with a Document Management System

If you’re not planning to improve your operational resilience, you’ve not been paying attention. How can a dig...

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Knowledge Through Information Management in ISO 9001

In a previous blog, we wrote that information findability is as worthy a topic for ISO 9001:2015 standards-mak...

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Bug Tracking vs Help Desk Software: Understanding the Key Differences

There's a long-running debate whether a bug or defect tracking software tool is just a synonym for a help or s...

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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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Streamlining Document Management in the Life Sciences Industry

If you took a snapshot of document management around 20 years ago, the general situation was that in my indust...

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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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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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Cognidox launches latest upgrade to leading dMS

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

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Cognidox achieves full iSO 27001 certification

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

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4 Steps to ISO9001 Compliance

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

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Cognidox CEO Paul Walsh Passes Away, Joe Byrne Named CEO

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

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Navigating CAD Product Data Management Challenges

A number of Cognidox companies use the tool to store their 2D and 3D CADdrawings, in addition to more typical ...

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Secure Your Documents: The Key to a Great Document Management System

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

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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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Enhanced PDF Conversion with OfficeToPDF Version 1.7

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

Explore the Exciting Features of CogniDox 9.0.0

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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Implementing Risk-based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015: A Practical Guide

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes -Part XII

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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Optimising Quality Management Principles with a Graphical QMS

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part XI

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part X

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part IX

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-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part VIII

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

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Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part VII

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part VI

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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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part V

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

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Uncovering the Pitfalls of Business Process Visualisation

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part IV

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

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Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part III

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part II

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

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Apply Risk-Based Thinking in ISO 9001:2015 Quality Processes - Part I

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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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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Increase Efficiency: Convert Office Files to PDF with OfficeToPDF

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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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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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (Part III)

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

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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (Part II)

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

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Impact of ISO 9001:2015: What You Need to Know (Part I)

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

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ISO27001:2013 Documentation Requirements: A Comprehensive Guide

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

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Understanding Changes in ISO 27001:2013 Risk Assessments- Part II

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

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Understanding the Changes in ISO 27001:2013

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

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New Release: OfficeToPDF Server-Based PDF Conversion Tool Update

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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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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Beware of Virus-Infected Macros and Self-Signed SSL Certificates

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

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Enhance Email Efficiency with CogniDox DMS Integration

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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Unveiling the Technology Behind LinkedIn Publish

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

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Mastering Document Control: Tips for ISO 9001 Compliance

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

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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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CogniDox and Information Security Management: A Comprehensive Guide

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The Power of Lean Document Management in CogniDox

If CogniDox had to have a mission statement, it would be "to promote Lean principles in the adoption of Docume...

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