Integrated Management Systems — A Practical Guide the integration thesis, now ISO-authored

Why it matters for NETEVO

ISO's published, peer-reviewed successor to earlier integrated-management-system working drafts. The guide codifies a four-step integration sequence — Prepare the integration → Connect MSS requirements with the management system → Integrate requirements into the management system → Operate, maintain and improve — and a five-aspect maturity model: governance, addressing risks and opportunities, compliance management, operational processes, performance evaluation and improvement. Each aspect carries a downstream public ISO standard reference (ISO 37000 governance; ISO 31000 risk; ISO 37301 compliance management; ISO 10012 measurement management).

The guide gives the integration thesis — one engineered system meets many normative regimes — direct ISO authorship. Before its publication, the position had to be assembled as a composite of ISO 9001:2015, ISO 31000:2018 and the broader management-system literature; it is now stated in a single ISO instrument.

The five-aspect maturity model is one of the few integrated-management-system frameworks that places governance, risk, compliance, and operational evaluation in a single coherent frame, which makes it a natural board-paper artefact for the leadership of a listed company.