Book description
Understand how to implement an IMS (integrated management system) and how it can benefit your organisation
An IMS incorporates all of an organisation’s processes and systems so that they are working under – and towards – one set of policies and objectives.
Your strategic guide to implementing an IMS – get the help and guidance you need!
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Benefits of an IMS
- Chapter 2: Terms and definitions
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Chapter 3: IMS Implementation Strategies
- Does an IMS always have to be aligned to any particular management standards?
- Strategic buy-in
- How far does Annex SL help a leadership team with thinking about an IMS?
- Why should leadership be interested in an IMS?
- PDCA and managing uncertainty
- IMS and process-based thinking
- IMS, risk and metrics
- How does this risk-based thinking impact on policy and objectives?
- Chapter 4: Implementing an IMS – Policies and Objectives
- Chapter 5: Acting on the IMS
- Chapter 6: Third-party assessment
- Further reading
Product information
- Title: Implementing an Integrated Management System (IMS)
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2019
- Publisher(s): IT Governance Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787781269
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