What is a Company Management System?
A company management system can be a useful way to document, analyze and improve every job you do and every process. It’s about more than simply recording best practices It’s about creating a system that aids in the growth of your company and allows employees to work effectively. You can end up with people who march to their own drum without a proper management system. This can lead to problems, inefficiency, and eventually an uncoordinated customer experience.
A company management system lays out the way you do things and gives your staff a reference point to make sure that processes are consistently followed. It could take the form of lengthy documents or flow diagrams. It can also be as simple as a page on an intranet or as sophisticated as software. If you decide to use it, a well-designed BMS will help new employees understand the way your business operates more quickly, and will allow current staff to understand and improve processes to guarantee better quality.
One thing that’s great about a company management system is that it can be used to help support any of the management standards, from food safety to business continuity and security management of information. The standards are laid out in a similar manner and there’s often cross-over between the various standards, making it easier for those who are comfortable with one system to understand the other.
SPAN offers a variety of templates, tools, and software solutions for building documentation, managing, and building the company’s management system. We can help you throughout your management systems journey, from creating the strategy to implementing the framework, auditing, training, and driving constant improvements.