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Navigating MDSW, IVDR, and MDR: New EU Guidance Decoded

As the 2020 deadline for compliance with the EU’s new Medical Device Regulation (MDR) fast approaches, the EC’...

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GAMP 5®: A Risk-Based Approach to GP Computerised Systems

The Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP 5 ®) guidelines define a set of core principles for GxP, as pr...

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Integrating ISO 27001 and ISO 9001: A Guide for High-Tech Businesses

Many high tech businesses who are implementing a Quality Management System (QMS) to gain ISO 9001:2015, are in...

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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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Effective Change Control Process: Key Strategies for Success

A change control process is a vital part of any product development and management function. But if it’s not e...

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Unlocking the Potential of DMS for Driverless Tech Development

Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and even driverless cars, once the stuff of science fiction, are rap...

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5 Key Factors for Successful New Product Development

A responsive new product development (NPD) process has always been a key part of a high tech business strategy...

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Can Agile Tools Enhance Stage-Gate Processes?

Can you ever make a stage-gate process Agile? Can modern tools and a hybrid approach to Waterfall and Agile br...

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Choosing the Right Business Management Software for Your Company

Not all business management software solutions are created equal. They come in different shapes and sizes, wit...

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Navigating the Challenges of Med-Tech Quality Management

Time and costs can soon rack up in a med tech device design and development cycle. But those who have installe...

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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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Navigating FDA Interactions: 10 Tips for Regulatory Success

I am a former FDA staff member and now back in the private sector. If you are in Regulatory Affairs, you are i...

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Preparing for the New IVD Regulation: Key Steps to Compliance

From 2022 the In Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) will require Notified Body intervention and review for 80...

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Google Drive Vs Dropbox: Choosing the Best Document Management System

Google Drive and Dropbox are two of the most popular cloud-based, file-sharing platforms on the market today. ...

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New EU Medical Device Regulations: What You Need to Know

From 2020 and 2022, EU Medical Device Regulations will change. This brings certain products into regulatory sc...

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Avoid These 7 Document Control Pitfalls for Business Success

Do your systems give you the kind of control over your documentation which really match the organisational, co...

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Navigating the Med Tech Graveyard: A User-Centred Approach to Design

A med tech device that has a poor user experience can be dangerous for consumers and commercially calamitous f...

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Enhancing Document Management with Google Team Drive

Google Team Drive is a service which has been available by default to Business, Enterprise and Education G-Sui...

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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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Maximising Collaboration with a Document Management System

There is always commercial pressure on product developers to find better and more efficient ways to collaborat...

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Box Vs Dropbox: A Comprehensive Comparison for DMS

Both Box and Dropbox Business are cloud-based file sharing solutions intended to give their customers the free...

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Investor Insights: Product Management Process for Growth

Founders of companies are often, by necessity, their own Product Managers. They’re often the ones who have mos...

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7 Deadly Sins of Product Development: A Guide to Avoiding Disaster

OK, we admit it, there are definitely more than 7 deadly sins of the product development process. In fact, the...

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Why not just use Box as a document management system?

Box is a popular cloud-based, file sharing solution, designed for use by enterprises to store business documen...

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Navigating Supply Chain Disruption: The Future of Trust

With a supply chain ripe for digital disruption, high tech manufacturing companies must evolve new ways of man...

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Enhancing Prince2 with Document Management Software

Document control is a crucial part of any project management process. In this blog post we ask how the right D...

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3 Costly Product Development Fails: Lessons Learned

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 Effective Business Process Mapping

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 Why Your Business Needs 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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Choosing Between OneDrive and SharePoint for Document Management

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

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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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The FDA's need for Quality Management in Medical Device Development

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

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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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Securing a Competitive Advantage even in Uncertain Times

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

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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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4 Ways to Improve Agile Product Development with Document Management

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

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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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Mastering Product Development Challenges: Conquering Delays in Style

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

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Collaboration for Quality: The Key to Better QA in Product Development

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

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Unlocking the Value of ISO Certification Beyond Compliance

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

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Avoiding Product Development Pitfalls: How to Save Time and Money

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 Transforms Companies

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

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Securing Regulatory Compliance: The Power of Digital Signatures

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

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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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The Product Management Challenge: Founder vs. Product Manager

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

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Streamlining Product Development: Harness the Power of 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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Maximising Collaborative Success with a Document Management System

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

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Maximising Product Development Success with Gate Control and 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: A Look Back at Tech Acquisitions

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

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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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6 Ways to Streamline Product Release Management

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

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Document Security in the Information Age: A Two-Pronged Approach

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

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