Sustainable process management for sustainable companies

How an integrated management system can enhance your environmental management

'Sustainability' has long since ceased to be a trendy term. It is a topic that, with increasing awareness of the responsibility of mankind to take care of our planet, has RIGHTLY developed into a central component of the mindset of consumers and entrepreneurship. Nevertheless, there is still a great need to catch up when it comes to sustainability - especially because truly sustainable management is unfortunately still associated with a certain amount of effort. However, there are ways to minimize this additional effort - and thus reasons why a focus on sustainability can develop into a real competitive advantage. How is all this supposed to work? Let's take a closer look.  

The challenge: Once sustainable ≠ everywhere sustainable

'Sustainability' is an extremely broad term that has a meaning in almost every area of a company. As a production company, for example, aligning your own production facilities as sustainably as possible is therefore only a very small piece of the pie if the raw materials used and the logistics of the products are completely devoid of any environmental awareness. This creates a broad network of requirements, all of which require different measures and approaches. To support our sustainability measures, we are therefore looking for a system that ideally represents all of our company's processes and at the same time offers the possibility of carrying out audits for our processes in order to continuously optimize our process landscape in the best possible way in the long term.

The solution: Sustainable optimization of processes with sustainable IMS

One possibility: The introduction of an integrated management system, or IMS for short. Why? Well...

Represent all processes? Check!
Record audits and monitor their implementation? Check!
Optimize processes based on the results of these audits? Check!

In this sense, an IMS already provides a solid basis for supporting your own sustainability efforts. Not enough? It can also be topped off: An IMS filled with 'crowd mining', which has access to the actual processes of the company and thus to the employees, instead of orienting itself to the target processes specified by the manager. This makes it possible to respond even better to the processes that actually take place. In addition, these systems are also much more agile, as the process owner himself can be involved in the optimization of his processes.

aiio's Payoff: Sustainable management with a clear conscience

IMS set up? Very nice! Simply stick with it CONTINUOUSLY and look at the fruits of your own labor: significantly more sustainable management, innovations in the field of sustainability and thus, thanks to your own foresight and perseverance, not only reap long-term competitive advantages, but above all work with a clear conscience. Because your own company is now actively helping to shape the more sustainable industry of tomorrow. Chapeau!