A whole long time of silence, and than suddenly appears backbone.ms to be a safe encrypted site accessible trough https and SSL certified altogether just as banks do. What seemed to be a luxury but often required feature is something that almost every site will have implemented one year from today. But let’s enjoy the

The one and only reason for posting this message is to publish my idea for the name of Backbone Management System updates. “The Backbone Backlog”. A Backlog is a list of features that will be implemented in a software program. A prioritized things to do list. Priority zero (0) features are essential and must be

Visionary statement Backbone Management System (2017-2021) By the end of 2021 Backbone Management System will be a significant player in the market for integrated management systems. Aiming to meet ten percent of the demand for integrated quality management systems. Making continual improvement and organizational learning accessible for small and medium sized organizations. Our projection is

Yesterday I did the annual B-assessment to keep track of the impacts that my management-system-in-formation potentially has. It is still a theoretical exercise to measure impacts, in the pre-launch phase, but I think it is a useful tool for strategic thinking. One of the questions of the assessment is whether my organization has a written

We are in the so-called alpha or pre-launch phase. That may sound interesting, but it means that lots of work is being done, without any money coming in. Not such a good business. In this phase many start-ups try to find funding with angle investors (venture backed start-up) but that comes at the price of

One year ago, in September 2015 the new revised ISO standards for Quality- and Environmental Management Systems, ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 were published. The old standards can still be used during a three year transition period, so for organizations who already have a certification for their Quality,- Environmental or Integrated Management System there are

Confession: I still use external harddrives. I am not a geek, but an average tech user, just like you and most of my clients. No Apple for me, just one of-the-shelve laptop with windows, a commonly used tablet and a regular phone both running on android. I do not understand how firefox, apple or ubuntu

Currently two developments are interesting sharing. First is the roll out of the highlevelstructure.com information portal which will serve as wiki page explaining the High Level Structure. The HLS is so essential because it is the new framework for management system standards. Now the site show a youtube video I recorded about a year ago.

After the initial contacts with experts and important players in field of compliance management I had end of 2015, the list of potential features for the Integrated Management System kept growing and growing. Sketches of the solutions have been made and I am working on a conceptual model, as a working prototype, before to get

Backbone.ms wants to become a B-Corporation. Start-ups can be eligible for the B-pending status during the first 12 months of operations in order to get certified as a B-Corporation after one year in the countries where a legal status for B-Corporations exists. I support the ‘plan B movement’ towards a new economy were a business

The development of an logo or icon is something that can take a lot of time. For earlier projects I spend hours and hours drawing and sketching logo designs. If you are not a designer that usually is a waste of time. The design of a logo was not a priority, however it is nice

Historic development of Standards In the 1960’s and ’70 quality standards were first developed as military standards, which ultimately led to the widely adopted quality standard published by the International Standardization Organization (ISO) in 1987 with ISO9000:1987 as its first version (The British Assessment Bureau 2015). In the early 2000’s, the environmental standard ISO 14001

Since I am working on the prototype of Backbone I thought it is about time to share some things about ongoing developments. Read the weblog on my homepage about the steps I took so far. In future I will post news about backbone right here at this site.

It is getting about time that I share some ongoing developments… I researched the possibilities on compliance software for sustainable enterprises and this is leading to the development of a prototype right now. With this weblog I want to summarize and share the steps I took so far. I am very exited about this and

Scientific research shows that process based design of Integrated Management Systems is essential to design a system that will be adopted by all users in an organization. Therefore, I started looking for ways to implement a process based navigation structure. Here an example of a clickable image, because great programs to create flowcharts already exist,

Some two or three months ago I was watching a series of interviews with successful entrepreneurs made by Yaro Starak. The interview with Dane Maxwell, co-founder of The Foundation inspired me to check out his program. Yaro has great content on blogging and offers a course to become ‘the authority’ on your subject. I learned

Last week I’ve uploaded two new video’s. In the first video, I explain How and why I use a Mindmap to set the outline for my youtube channel content. In this Mindmap video, I found four key themes that lead to Online Software for Environmental Business. For each topic I created a separate playlist and