Management Systems provide structure & integration

• A Management System describes how you lead, manage and control an organisation to define and deliver its policies, strategies and objectives.

• Specific Management Systems, such as quality, environmental, health & safety, describe how those specific policies, strategies and objectives are met.

• An Integrated Management System means that you develop and define all the processes just once  -  just how they really work.  If you are doing the processes right then all the more specific system objectives will be met.

• An integrated process architecture shows how all the processes in the organisation are linked together to achieve the objectives of the business.

• One single approach enables the integration of all improvement initiatives, management processes and formal systems.

• Bureaucracy is minimised when multiple management systems are eliminated.

• Transparency is provided for external assessors and regulators when there is one set of defined processes that represent the real operations of the organisation.