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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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Evolving Quality Management: From Ad Hoc to Chaordic

How can you help your business evolve its mindset to achieve the most instinctive, frictionless and effective ...

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Maximising Customer Value Through Lean Documentation

In a Lean approach to product development, customer value is defined as ‘everything the customer is prepared t...

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Avoid These Common Mistakes in New Product Development Process

It’s much easier to screw up a new product development process than mastermind a successful one. Here’s how.

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7 Essential Stages of New Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

A brief internet search will confidently tell you that there are anywhere between 4 and 8 stages of the ‘ideal...

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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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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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Discover the Exciting Features of Cognidox v10

Cognidox’s commitment to improving usability and cross platform accessibility continues with the release of v1...

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9 ways to screw up your business process mapping

Companies are often spurred to undertake business process mapping to improve their quality management.

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Navigating the Product Management Process: Finding the Right Fit

How do you need your product management process to function? A classic article in the HBR got us thinking abou...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Using the new online Document Holder editor

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Avoid these 5 Common Interview Mistakes made by Product Managers

I was at another excellent meeting last week of the Cambridge Product Management Network which as the name imp...

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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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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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Optimising Product Management: Agile Strategies and Best Practices

The Software East group continued its series on Agile software development with a talk by Scrum consultant Rom...

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3 Reasons Why Product Management Can Fail: Expert Insights

Tomorrow (Tue, May 18) there's an excellent chance to hear one of the best bloggers and practitioners on the t...

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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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What is Product Management?

The Cambridge Product Management Network had a useful get-together this week to debate the question: what is p...

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