Integrated Management System

The Integrated Management System is the system-of-interest for this System Description.

The concept of a Management System builds on the ISO 9001 standard for Quality Management System - Requirements.

• Management System: ISO 9000:2015: set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization to establish policies and objectives, and processes to achieve those objectives.

This document identifies the key elements found in an Integrated Management System that meets the various management system standards. This document also focuses on the approach to embed a management system into an Enterprise to realize the organizational capabilities.

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This document uses the Enterprise Systems identified in the Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS) System Description as the context for the Integrated Management System.

PDF: System Description: Enterprise as a System of Systems (SoS), Version 0.20, 25-November-2024

PDF: System Description: Integrated Management System, Version 0.18, 16-April-2025

Integrated Management System

Every organization has a management system. This management system can be either:

• ad hoc or not coherent (low maturity)

• designed and capable of continual improvement or major improvement (high maturity)

These differences relate to management system maturity. Ad hoc management systems are not aligned and require extra work to change and achieve benefits. Some high performing organizations have established a culture of performance and improvement where change is valued and benefits are achieved as planned.

The most effective approach to management system maturity is to establish and maintain an Integrated Management System that can meet all relevant standards and regulations and can be implemented / replicated in a coherent way across the Enterprise (SoS).

An Integrated Management System has the following benefits:

• Meets identified external standards with traceability and assessment

• Allows learning from existing communities that manage external standards or regulations (Communities of Practice)

• Provides confidence to customers

• Enables continual improvement of the capabilities in the long term

• Provides for a way to integrate new / changed standards and associated capabilities

Enterprise (SoS)

An Integrated Management System is created using all of the systems identified in the Enterprise (SoS). In this way, the Enterprise Architecture Description can be used to document the resulting Integrated Management System. The following diagram identifies all of the viewpoints used to create the views in the document:

NOTE: A Viewpoint provides the instructions to create a View in the Enterprise Architecture Description.

The viewpoints in the Capability Perspective provide the mapping of identified external standards to the capabilities realized in the various organizations.

The viewpoints in the Enterprise Perspective includes the Strategy and Planning, change and continuity to establish the organizations to deliver the capabilities.

The Change Viewpoint provides the Roadmap for change to realize the Integrated Management System. This change view will also develop the capabilities necessary for continual improvement and ways to improve the maturity of the organizations. The Change Viewpoint also provides the links to the Transformation and Change approach

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