This story may resonate with you, as many of our clients were in this situation before partnering with us.
You probably started managing compliance using simple tools like Excel spreadsheets. Then, as your compliance requirements grew more complex, spreadsheets became insufficient and you turned to commercial off-the-shelf compliance software.
For example, you may have started managing incidents with a COTS. That worked fine at the beginning, but then the next challenge came up: managing documents. The same COTS didn’t have the document management capability you needed, so you either lived with the limitations or solved them by implementing a separate COTS or SharePoint.
As your compliance framework became more sophisticated and complex, you found you needed to improve visibility and responsiveness, so you had to add another COTS layer, say a task scheduling or monitoring system for calibration, equipment inspections or workplace checks.
The problem? None of the COTS can properly support all your growing operational compliance requirements.
At some point in the future, to meet your specific needs for control forms and checklists, your team discovers you’ll need yet another highly configurable COTS solution. And the same pattern repeats itself when you get to internal audits, risk management, training and onboarding.
Now you’ve got multiple stand-alone solutions, each excellent at doing their own thing. However, this means more admin, more consolidation work and less cross-functional visibility.
If you find yourself in this situation, or are afraid you may be heading there, we might be able to help. Get in touch for a chat with one of our senior team members.
Gianni Torta e il team di ISOPro