ISO 56000 Book by Peter Merrill

ISO 56000 Building an Innovation Management System - ‘Bring Curiosity and Creativity into your QMS’

By Peter Merrill. Published by Quality Press

Innovation is exciting and is about changing from the world of today.  It is full of promise and yet it can be overwhelming.  Where do we start? Is it with strategy or with process or with culture?

This book introduces the ISO 56000 series of standards on Innovation Management and will explain in detail how to use the Innovation Management System Guidance Standard, ISO 56002. It shows how a system approach is necessary for an organization to become a serial innovator. It also shows you, if you have a QMS based on ISO 9001, you can develop it into an Innovation Management system (IMS).  You can start with strategy, as the standard does, or you can start with process if you want to begin with a ‘contained’ approach.  ISO 56002 gives you major guidance on culture and the key issues to look out for as you develop your ‘IMS’.

This standard is not just one person’s ideas but the collective knowledge of hundreds of people globally.  I was one of those people and I was Head of Delegation for my Country, to ISO TC279 the Technical Committee that wrote the standard.  I will give you the thinking behind each of the clauses in the standard.  I will explain real life applications of the guidance the standard gives.      

Today Innovation Management is the competitive edge in the business world.  Research shows a major correlation between profitability and innovation. Join me on the journey into the exciting and rewarding World of Innovation!

Peter Merrill
December 2020