A company management system provides an orderly, logical and accountable system for the employees who carry out the work in your organization. It’s your company’s framework for the strategic objectives you establish and the tools that your team utilizes to achieve the outcomes you need in order to achieve a particular level of quality, to comply with legal regulations regarding occupational safety or to boost profits by implementing more efficient processes.
Management systems are based on the notion that when all processes are documented and responsibilities are assigned and success indicators are clearly defined, tasks can theoretically manage themselves. It’s not always the case however it is the goal that businesses strive to achieve when they introduce a management system.
This is true for almost all management systems, whether they are for quality, sustainability energy, information security, or even energy. They all have the same basic objectives: plan the activities, execute them, review metrics, and make improvements systematically. This is why you’ll find so many similar tools available on the market.
Since management systems impact every aspect of the business and typically have an inter-functional focus it is not logical to run different systems simultaneously. It’s not a good idea to develop an idea management system on top of the quality management system you already have. This is only going to add unnecessary burdens to your employees and is not a good idea from an ISO perspective. It is for this reason that it is becoming increasingly important to use management system software that blends a variety of existing and new systems under a single umbrella.