ISO 44001 - working together toward a brighter future
Effective collaboration can greatly enhance the success of any business venture.
By pooling resources, leveraging expertise and exploiting opportunities, businesses can achieve more together than they can alone. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the world became more uniform and openness to collaboration revealed a significant upsurge.
In the context of partners of a legal firm, Harvard Business Review (2020) reported that collaborators outperformed those who didn’t collaborate. However, the success of joint efforts hinges on the establishment of mutual trust and shared goals. Lack of trust among potential collaborators creates the desire for businesses to perform their work alone.
ISO 44001 provides a framework to track, measure and improve partner collaborations with your business. Shunting Yard provides a proven framework that supports you to foster trust, develop shared goals, and maximise benefits to all collaborators.
What is special about ISO 44001?
Regardless of the size of the business or industry, ISO 44001 framework allows businesses to maximise the benefits of collaborative working. The standard provides a framework that guides users on identifying, developing, and managing collaborative relationships within their organization or with external partners. It can be applied to single or multiple relationships, as well as organization-wide collaborations, including both internal and external partnerships.
ISO 44001 shares the same structure as major ISO management system standards, allowing it to be easily integrated with other management systems. In summary, the standard aims to help organizations foster effective collaborative relationships that boost business outcomes.
How will your business benefit from ISO 44001?
ISO 44001 is the global standard for collaborative working that is trusted alike by governments and industries globally. Key benefits of achieving ISO 44001 include:
Enhanced Reputation: Certification to ISO 44001 demonstrates your commitment to effective collaborative working practices, which can enhance your reputation among collaborators.
Competitive Advantage: Being transparent and systematic about how you manage your collaborative work will increase credibility in the competitive landscape.
Increased Efficiency: By standardizing collaborative processes and procedures, ISO 44001 certification can reduce duplication of effort, errors, and delays, resulting in increased efficiency and productivity.
Reduced Risks: The ISO 44001 standard emphasizes the importance of identifying and managing risks associated with collaborative relationships, helping organizations to proactively mitigate potential problems and reduce the likelihood of disputes.
Improved Trust: The evidence base established base established through ISO 44001 framework will result in improved communication, trust, and teamwork between collaborators.