Business Assurance
In a rapidly changing world, business cannot stand still. There is an ever increasing need to evolve, to move from prescriptive instructions intended to satisfy narrow compliance standards, to systems designed to ensure delivery against organisational commitments. This requires broader, deeper and more intelligent systems with flexibility in their application.
The future of management systems
Organisations of all sizes need to be able to manage risk, the uncertainty of global supply chains and legislative demands. In effect, management systems need to be central to the way modern, successful organisations manage themselves. The challenge facing management systems professionals is designing systems that meet these needs. And, in order to do so, they must become bi-lingual - able to speak the language of business and systems.
Management systems are becoming inextricably linked to assuring the future of the business. As a result, we must start assessing such systems in a different way. They need to be viewed through the prism of an organisation's stakeholders and top management for what they are - business assurance systems.
LRQA’s Business Assurance approach
These new business challenges have led us to develop a different approach to our services and the way in which we carry out our assessments with clients. We have named this 'Business Assurance'. LRQA’s Business Assurance is based on the idea that building trust stretches far beyond the issuing of certificates.