Integrated Management Systems — A Practical Guide

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 integration thesis — one engineered system meets many normative regimes — that underwrites every NETEVO Layer 4 argument is now the ISO-authored position rather than NETEVO-asserted orthodoxy.

Two consequences follow. First, NETEVO whitepapers anchor the integration argument on ISO (2026), Integrated Management Systems: A Practical Guide directly rather than on a workaround composite of ISO 9001:2015 + ISO 31000:2018 + the broader management-system literature. Second, the five-aspect maturity model is a natural board-paper artefact for listed-company leaders — one of the few integrated-management-system surfaces that places governance, risk, compliance, and operational evaluation in a single coherent frame.