A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

3. The certification of IMS
Anna Arnò, Stefano De Falco and Guglielmo Trupiano
3.1 Introduction and notes on the construction of the specification
The proposed IMS certification will certainly be a voluntary certification, and more precisely, a
specification compliance to AICTT’s procedures, since it does not drafted by any national or
international body, but simply a document as proof that the organization complies with what is
prescribed for her and implement behaviors that characterize the organization itself in the market as
an organization oriented to innovation, continuously seeking to improve their products / services and
their systems of production / supply, in order to respond to increasingly changing market demands, to
customer’s requirements, to changes to mandatory regulations, and to a more rational management
of resources (financial, human, physical) and of her inside processes.
The concept of the specification proposed by AICTT has been based on the structure of the most
famous voluntary certification, the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008, which is the certification of quality
management system;of course quality and innovation are two closely related concepts, then it was
considered for the assumptions on which to base the specification, to rely on what already has been
excellently prepared by international organizations about the system of quality management
(approach, documentation, responsibilities), the second part of the specification, however appears to
be the most interesting, because the concept of the various processes of implementation / delivery of
product / service of UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 has replaced the concept of the various phases that
characterize the emergence of an innovation: from research of the possible areas of improvement, the
definition of innovation to be made, the preparation of plans for technical and economic feasibility,
implementing real innovation, test results and any corrections.
In addition, two appendices of the specification are themselves, and more specifically, objects of
certification with reference to the staff’s certification. These appendices are able to certify that the
organization is responsible for the whole system of innovation management, and to certify who must
determine the suitability or less of the management system for innovation organization, ie certifiers.
We note that in the specification, compliance with the terminology of the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008, the
term organization is used to indicate companies of all types, sizes and sectors.
3.2 The specification of IMS
The specification is divided into the following parts:
� Purpose and Scope: defines the concept of innovation, the importance and purpose of having a
system for managing innovation in an organization that wants to be competitive in the continuous
guidance of a system for managing innovation ;
� Documentation: defines the types of documents be drawn up for a system of innovation
management, and methods for their production, approval, storage, modification;
� Responsibilities: defines the responsibility for the policies, objectives and review management
system innovation;
� Phases of the management system of innovation: they are defined and specified steps to be
followed by the organization to implement its own internal innovation: the definition of the
situation, the definition of the prospects for innovation, the feasibility (technical, economic financial
and know-how), planning of activities and operations, measurement, analysis and improvement.
For each of these phases are listed in the records to be produced, what these records should contain,
and the technical tools that the organization can use to establish them.
The phases of the management system of innovation have been considered to be cyclical in
perspective: the state of departure, which analyzes an organization that wants to implement a new
innovation process is simply the point at which the organization is arrived earlier in the development
and implementation of innovation processes, and a new process of innovation can be seen even as
rehabilitation and correction of the above, if he is found from the analysis did not proceed as planned.
Appendix A - Checklist of the management system for innovation: this Appendix includes the checklist
to be used by auditors or by those want to test the system for managing innovation to establish the
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