A management system for your company offers structure, accountability, and direction for the employees who work for it. It’s the framework of your company for the strategic objectives you establish and the tools your team uses to achieve the goals you set to meet an exact level of quality, meet the legal requirements for occupational safety or to increase profit through leaner processes.
Management systems are based on the notion that tasks can in theory manage themselves once all processes are documented and assigned responsibilities. This is not always the case in reality, but it is what companies set when introducing company management systems.
This logic applies to virtually all management systems, regardless of whether they are for sustainability, quality energy, information security or other. All of them are the same in terms of their core functions: Plan activities, execute, analyze metrics and continuously improve. This is the reason you can find a variety of similar tools on the market.
It is not logical to run multiple systems simultaneously, since management systems are utilized in all areas of a company and usually have a cross-functional focal point. Creating an idea management system that is not compatible with the one you already have for quality management, for example, creates unnecessary burdens on employees and doesn’t make sense from an ISO perspective too. This is why it’s becoming more important to implement a management system software that brings together several existing and new systems under one umbrella.