Building an Innovation Management System with ISO 56000

by Peter Merrill

Innovation is a competitive requirement for business success and quality products and services. Enter the ISO 56000 series of standards on innovation management, namely ISO 56002:2019, Innovation management, Innovation management system, guidance. This standard was recently developed through consensus with the collective knowledge of hundreds of representatives from close to 40 countries. Author Peter Merrill was one of the creators, and this guide provides the thinking behind each of the clauses in the standard, and explains real-life, practical applications of the guidance the standard gives. ISO 56002 shows how to initiate and how to execute innovation, and it shows how a systems approach to innovation is without a doubt the best approach. It also demonstrates how to develop a quality management system (QMS) based on ISO 9001 into an innovation management system (IMS) prepared for the future. In his book, innovation leader Peter Looks at the culture, leadership, planning, strategy, competence, tools, and operations needed to build an innovation management system for your organization with ISO 56000
Advances the vital role innovation and creativity have within the ISO framework that can set up organizations to achieve progress in the modern Industry 4.0/Quality 4.0 era
Delves into eight innovation management principles that can help solve problems and improve processes and systems
Describes the different cultures of creating and executing, and how to manage both for serial innovation
Suggests tools and assessments for facilitating the transition to an IMS

256 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2020

Reviews

[Beda Meienberger · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book provides well-founded guidelines for the development of structured, standards-based innovation management. Clear, systematic and practice-oriented - ideal for organizations that want to make innovation measurable, controllable and sustainable.