IMS often gets articulated as a framework - vague, nebulous, and lacking clarity - essentially disconnected from the actual, functioning business.
In many organisations, the 'IMS Framework' is simply a pictorial view of all management (assurance) systems, e.g. for health & safety, security, quality assurance, environmental management, compliance, etc., supported by a narrative which describes how these systems (should) interact with each other and the core business.
We approach IMS as an application, with clearly defined functionality, that meets a clear corporate governance business requirement.
We provide a truly integrated solution where all business-directing elements (such as policies, processes, procedures, plans, & specifications) are managed within the IMS: The IMS becomes the single-source-of-truth and basis for all verification, assurance and risk management activities.
Demonstrating compliance with standards, including ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO45001, & ISO55001, becomes a straightforward process centred around your IMS.
The IMS can be deployed on any web-hosted, mobile-device-enabled, electronic document management system (EDMS) platform, so all your core content, including policies, standards, processes, procedures, specifications & forms, are always available to you on any device.
Every organisation is different, but good corporate governance's core principles are not. We provide an out-of-the-box IMS data model based on 30+ years of experience across many sectors. Terminology & nomenclature can be tailored to your organisation without compromising the fundamentals of the model.
Not everyone sees their organisation through the same lens, so there is no one-size-fits-all solution to the front-end of an IMS.
While there is only a single instance of each document in the IMS, various access mechanisms are available to meet end-user needs, all facilitated by the IMS metadata model.
As part of our core offering, we provide templates for core IMS document types, tailored to your branding requirements.
We train your content owners and authors on ways to improve your existing and develop new IMS content.
Based on our extensive experience we provide authoring services for a wide array of operational and functional support topics across a broad array of industries, from:
- light-touch QA/QC of content being developed by your own personnel, to
- completely restructuring and rewriting your content to align to the IMS content types and formats.
Whether the need is for simple flowcharts or detailing out complex processes using formal process notation, we create for our clients key business processes depicted in the format most appropriate to the audience.
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