What is a Company Management System?
Systematisation is the best method to grow your business and ensure sustainable growth. Incorporating processes into your business gives everyone a clear understanding about what they must do, allowing them step out of their managerial and tactical roles and deliver results while also being accountable. But this requires a system that enables you to write down the ‘rules’ of your business, so that routine tasks are taken off which allows you to focus on the work that matters most. This is the purpose of an organizational management system.
A company’s management system is designed to establish a policy along with procedures and guidelines which ensure that all functions of a company are carried out in accordance with best practice. They are designed to accomplish several corporate goals such as improving efficiency in operations and financial performance, client relationships as well as safety of workers, environmental performance and legislative compliance.
These are usually founded on the PDCA cycle and involve creating processes that document, review and implement improvements to existing methods in a planned manner. Some of these processes are designed to meet certain requirements such as ISO 9001 quality management, ISO 14001 sustainability or ISO 27001 information security.
A well-designed management system for a company should be user-friendly and accessible to employees across the business. This could be in the form of a light weight application that allows anyone to easily edit and publish new workflows, or high-quality documents, or it may simply be making a business process map accessible through an intranet. It is important to be able to update the system easily so that it reflects current business practices. This reduces the chance of it becoming outdated, which is a problem that is common with more formalised manuals and software applications which require specialist skills to maintain.
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