Hi Rob,

Do you have a particular MS in mind? Or is it an IMS? Depending on your answer the presentation might change. But as general points I would go for (considering it's almost a long elevator pitch 10-15 minutes :)

Waste reduction

Risk Management and opportunities for improvement

Consultation and participation with/from employees

Business growth - attractivness and higher potential for tendering

Customer satisfaction

PDCA cycle and the opportunity to integrate all MS and continually improve

Improved work practices and organizational learning (corporate amnesia)

Seems like plenty to cover in a 15 min presentation. Start with the potential for more/larger orders. $$$ That seems to wake up the C-suits.

Best of luck

Fifteen minutes is not very long for this topic. 2 to three days might be more appropriate!

Assuming they just want to talk in very general terms I would start with slide of  an a**e and an elbow as if you want to do anything right you need to know the difference, and anything resembling a management system should at the very least enable you to do that.

Having defined you terms and agreed that rather than blinding rushing into things without a though you want to take a more SYSTEMatic approach where you control or MANAGE events (the clues in the Name).

First you need to decide WHAT it is you want to deliver. You might go into motivations for this (money, legal etc). This once written down could be called a POLICY

You then need to WHO is going to deliver this policy and tell them what to DO

You then need to make sure that it has been delivered- CHECK perhaps.

You review/audit the process and ACT on the findings.

You can mention that it is perfectly possible to create such a system from scratch but your company might decide that it might be worth getting an externally certified system in place, which goes into more depth and can be thoroughly audited.

Organisations can apply this process to everything they do or they might decide to focus on one aspect of their business such as Environmental policies (ISO 14001) or how they apply Health and Safety principles in the workplace (ISO 450001).

That should fill your 15 minutes.

Make sure you focus on what you have been asked to present - Benefits. It would be easy to use all the time you have been given explaining the whats and hows; resulting in you missing the point.

In my mind the benefits from an internal perspective can be summarised as:

* Better consistency - if everyone works to the system they will do things the same way;

* Predictability - because methods are defined you know what you are going to get;

* Resilience - you become less reliant on individuals because they know how to do things and so less vulnerable if they are unavailable.

From an external perspective the main benefit is

* Reputation - potential customers or other stakeholders are reassured that you are well organised.