INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT

Integrated Management is the antidote to disjointed silo management which struggles to address the major challenges and crises of our time in a holistic joined up way.

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The IMC defines Integrated Management as the understanding and effective direction of every aspect of an organisation so that the needs, expectations, and aspirations of all stakeholders are equitably satisfied by the best use of all resources.

 

This definition is contained and elaborated in the IMC paper: ‘Integrated Management Definition’.  It should be noted that the concepts of sustainability, corporate responsibility and social responsibility naturally emerge from the IMC definition of Integrated Management when we recognise that stakeholders can be global and those as yet unborn.

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At the root of Integrated Management is a holistic joined up thinking fully coherent approach that permeates all management activity. Successful Integrated Management requires holistic management attention that embraces:

• A boundless stakeholder equitable commitment, strategy, and implementation.

• Education, training and nurturing of personnel in the principles and practice of Integrated Management.

• Structure and functionality that make the best use of resources.

• A fully integrated boundless and coherent Integrated Management System comprising rules that direct and guide, as appropriate, the organisation's total behaviour.

• An organisation purpose centric fully integrated personnel competence structure. 

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Integrated Management is often incorrectly characterised as the combining of separate management systems. Management should be conducted holistically and not deliberately created via fragments each addressing a specific aspect of performance. All aspects of performance emerge from the same structures and processes that deliver an organisation's purpose. Apart from legacy aspects, an organisation's behaviour and its impacts emerge at its creation and cease at its death.

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An organisation's management system is the collection of hard and soft rules that direct and guide its behaviour, which in turn, determines all aspects and impacts comprising its performance. It is therefore one of its most valuable assets, so it is critically important that it is fully integrated and unbounded i.e. it addresses the total functioning of the enterprise and its interactions with others, including the deployment of all its assets to ensure that it equitably satisfies its stakeholder needs, expectations and aspirations.

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The IMC's free to download Universal Management System Standard MSS 1000 will help any organisation achieve total control of its structures and processes and has an architecture that can be used to structure any fully Integrated Management System. It addresses all the general aspects of managing an organisation to achieve excellent all-round performance and avoids the need to comply with multiple fragmented standards. It takes a fully business centric approach to structure and process and seamlessly includes quality, prospect, and risk management best practice. 

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It empowers organisations to create fully Integrated Management Systems directing and guiding their total strategic, tactical, and operational management processes. It contains all the requirements of the common certification management system standards such as goods and services quality, health and safety, environment, and security. and avoids the need to individually comply with them. Commercial, human resource and social responsibility aspects are also covered that are not normally explicitly addressed in management system standards.

 

​The IMC, within its limitations as a volunteer organisation, is here to help you understand and exploit the benefits of Integrated Management. You are welcome to become involved and to contact us.

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