Innovation is an activity that results in a new product, service or process, a new way of marketing or organising a business, or can lead to significant improvement of existing ones.
Innovation can be realised in small steps (incremental innovation), which means repeated minor improvements to existing products, services, processes and business models. The reasons for choosing incremental innovation are that it is cheaper, less risky and helps maintain market position. However, innovation can be aimed at creating entirely new products, services, processes, organisational structures or business models. This type of innovation (radical innovation) involves higher costs and risks, but also has a greater impact on the business.
In order to realise continuous improvement of the innovation process, it is necessary to implement a specific management system according to ISO 56001:2024 Innovation management system - Requirements and/or SR 13572, Innovation management systems (SMIn). Requirements, which specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving an innovation management system (SMIn).
Implementing and certifying an innovation management system, regardless of its type, helps organisations both to guide and monitor their innovation process, which, if well managed, can lead to significant economic growth, and to recognition of this by stakeholders.
Benefits of implementing and certifying an innovation management system
- increasing the capacity to manage uncertainty;
- economic growth, income, profitability and competitiveness;
- reducing costs and waste, increasing productivity and resource efficiency;
- improving sustainability and adaptability to changes in the business environment and emphasising on the market through novelties;
- increasing the satisfaction of users, customers, citizens and other stakeholders;
- sustained renewal of the offer portfolio;
- increasing the capacity to attract partners, collaborators and funders;
- enhancing the reputation and value of the organisation;
- facilitating compliance with regulations and other relevant requirements;
- developing the ability to identify new opportunities through innovation, linked to the context and objectives of the organisation and to identify and minimise associated risks;
- facilitating the creation of opportunities to adapt to crisis and/or unexpected situations;
- advantage in the evaluation process of the units and institutions of the national R&D system;
- advantage in the process of participation in the implementation measures (implicitly accessing the related funds) of the National Strategy for Research, Development and Innovation.
Innovation can be a factor for success in all sectors of an organisation and at all stages of a product's life cycle (from research, development, manufacturing, distribution and marketing, maintenance, to product withdrawal and disposal or recycling) as well as in the organisational domain. An optimal and systematic innovation process requires innovation management to be defined and implemented at organisational level.
Both ISO 56001 and SR 13572 fulfil the requirements of international standards for management systems. These requirements refer to a framework structure identical to that of international management standards, identical core texts and common terms with identical core definitions. This concept of the standard leads to a more user-friendly use of the standard by those implementing several international management standards in an integrated management system.
ISO 56001 and SR 13572 include requirements for:
- the context of the organisation in which it operates, understanding the needs and expectations of stakeholders, determining the scope and processes of the innovation management system;
- leadership: requirements on leadership commitment, policy and its communication and the roles, responsibilities and authorities of all staff;
- planning, from planning actions to deal with risks and opportunities, objectives and planning their realisation to establishing an adaptable organisational structure and portfolio of innovation initiatives;
- the necessary support, including: resources (people, time, knowledge, money, expertise), awareness, communication, documented information; tools and methods, management of confidential information, intellectual property;
- operation, i.e. operational planning and control, management of innovation initiatives, innovation management process, consisting of: opportunity identification, concept creation, concept validation, solution development and solution implementation;
- performance evaluation and its specific activities: monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation, internal audit, management analysis;
- improvement, including control of deviations, non-conformities and corrective actions.
To whom should the certification of innovation management systems according to ISO 56001 and/or SR 13572 be addressed?
All those interested in innovation, in other words all organisations that want to have a future, regardless of whether that organisation is public or private, regardless of its field of activity and regardless of its size.SRAC realised the first certification of the innovation management system: Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare in Constructii, Urbanism si Dezvoltare Teritoriala Durabila „URBAN-INCERC”.
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