What is meant by “fully integrated management system”?
Fully Integrated Management System is a management system that integrates all of an organization’s systems and processes in a coordinated framework, enabling its components to work as a single unit toward unified objectives. In contrast to a system of “silos,” in which individual organizational components perform functions independently without considering the impacts of their action or programs on the total organization, a fully integrated management system contemplates vertical and horizontal coordination of action. The success of a fully integrated system requires consideration of the impacts and risks of any proposed action on each component of the system and on the system as a whole. A fully integrated management system ensures that the organization executes all required functions and responsibilities, but minimizes redundancy of effort and function to the extent possible. Organizational components with responsibilities in the same functional area are encouraged to collaborate and
