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What Is The Definition Of A Management System?

Oct 13

A management system, in its most basic form, is how an organization ensures that tasks are completed. Regular staff meetings are part of your organization's management system if they are held on a regular basis. If you have post-it notes strewn over your desk as reminders to yourself, it is part of your management system.

The management system encompasses all formal and informal processes that enable your firm to offer its products or services as a whole.

Management systems can be simple or sophisticated, continuing or ad hoc, organization-wide or specific to individuals. Different management systems, of course, can provide differing degrees of effectiveness.

Obviously, what works for one company may not be the best solution for another. What's more intriguing is that the management system that got your company to where it is now might not be the best for getting it to where you want it to go in the future.

Organizations, like management systems, should evolve as well. For a start-up with three people working out of a garage, an impromptu, ad hoc system would suffice. However, the same structure is unlikely to produce the good communication, consistency, and knowledge sharing required to scale that same organization successfully.