How does Management System Thinking Happen?

Management System Thinking Miniseries

An earlier article, Pathway to Limitless Asset Management, covered what an ISO management system is and a little about where they come from.  This article will go deeper and explain how management system thinking happens.

To start, let’s agree that consistency is good, it is foundational to trust and performance improvement.  If you do something 100 times and the same thing happens each time you trust that the next time you do it the same thing will happen.  Also, if you do something 100 times you will learn more about how it works and, in the process learn how to make it better.

Management systems strive for consistency.  When the word “thinking” is added to the end of the phrase “management system” something more happens.  Management system thinking is verb, it leads to action, it invokes a way of thinking.  Given the ISO 55000/1 ecosystem, this way of thinking is predestined to follow a certain path. This article will detail how the structure of ISO 55001 - Asset Management System Requirements promotes management system thinking.