1. Why an integrated management system?

1.1 Notion of integrated management system

A few definitions :

Organization: a person or group of people with a role, responsibilities, authority and relationships enabling it to achieve its objectives.

Organizational context: the combination of internal and external issues that can affect an organization's approach to setting and achieving its objectives.

System: set of correlated or interacting elements.

Management: coordinated activities to guide and direct an organization.

Management system: a set of interrelated or interacting elements of an organization, used to establish policies, objectives and processes to achieve these objectives.

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