Overview
This documentation implements ISO 56001, the certifiable international standard specifying requirements for an Innovation Management System (IMS). Its purpose is to enable an organisation to develop, sustain, and improve its ability to realise value from new or improved products, services, processes, and business models in a systematic and repeatable way. The scope applies to any organisation seeking to strengthen its innovation capability, including established enterprises, start-ups, public bodies, and research organisations, irrespective of sector, size, or type of innovation pursued. It is intended for senior leadership, innovation managers, research and development teams, and those responsible for strategy and growth. Built on the Annex SL high-level structure shared by ISO management standards, key requirements include understanding the internal and external context, identifying interested parties, demonstrating leadership and an innovation vision and strategy, establishing an innovation policy, addressing risks and opportunities with an appropriate tolerance for uncertainty, providing enabling resources such as time, funding, competence, and intellectual property management, operating innovation processes covering opportunity identification, concept creation, validation, and deployment, and evaluating performance through monitoring, internal audit, and management review. The standard aligns with the broader ISO 56000 family, including ISO 56000 for fundamentals and vocabulary and supporting guidance on tools, partnerships, and intellectual property, and it integrates readily with ISO 9001 and other management systems through the shared structure. Main benefits include improved return on innovation investment, a structured yet flexible approach that balances creativity with governance, better management of uncertainty and risk, stronger collaboration, and enhanced organisational resilience and competitiveness. In a certification context, as ISO 56001 is designed to be auditable, an accredited certification body can assess the IMS and issue certification following successful staged audits, with ongoing surveillance and recertification. The documentation provides the evidentiary basis demonstrating that innovation is managed deliberately and continually improved.
Included: 63 ready-to-use, fully editable documents (manual, procedures, forms, records, checklists, guidance and training material).
License: single-organization license; delivered electronically as a ZIP archive.
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Frequently asked questions
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A downloadable ZIP containing the full set of ready-to-use documents for this toolkit — manuals, procedures, forms, records, checklists, guidance and training material, all in editable Word and Excel format. The exact document count is shown at the top of this page.
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