How was the consensus on ISO 37000 established?
At the time of publication, the ISO/TC309 committee on Governance of Organizations, and the Working Group 1 (ISO/TC309/WG1), which led the development of the standard itself, comprised of experts from 77 countries and 24 liaison bodies. All 164 of ISO’s National Member Bodies were balloted on the Draft International Standard (DIS) and Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) versions of ISO 37000.
Preliminary work on the standard was conducted by a TC309 Ad hoc group for close to one year between 2016-2017.
In October 2017, TC309 established a diverse Working Group 1 (WG1) under the leadership of Dr Victoria Hurth and Dr Axel Kravatzky as co-convenors, and Dave Adamson (BSI) as secretary. WG1 was representative of a wide cross-section of developed and developing countries from all geographic regions throughout the world and was set up with the mandate to lead the development of the standard using ISO’s four-year standard development cycle.
The work by the members of WG1 then progressed in the following stages:
- The development of several working drafts within the WG1 during the course of the first year.
- The balloting of a Committee Draft (CD) by TC309 participating members ('P' members**) in 2018. The CD was approved on the first submission together with 858 general, editorial, and technical comments with suggested improvements. Every comment was considered and responded to and the consensus deepened.
- The Draft International Standard (DIS) went to ballot to all 164 ISO members in 2019. The DIS was approved on first submission with 544 comments suggesting improvements. The consensus was further built through the broad and detailed discussion on how to address each comment.
- The balloting of Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) by all 164 ISO members in 2021. The FDIS was unanimously (100%) approved, with 124 editorial comments for improvement.
About P-members
Participating National Member Bodies (P-Members) are required to vote at the Technical Committee level and may have representation in the committee's working groups. P-Members usually establish a National Mirror Committees (NMC) responsible for 'mirroring' the work of the Technical Committee and which comprises a diverse range of relevant national stakeholders in order to establish and be informed by a national consensus on the standards being developed. In this way, the ISO process widens the consensus to include the national level and decisions are taken with greater transparency, balanced consideration of issues, and in a democratic manner.
About liaison members
Liaison members of the Technical Committee are approved to participate in the committee's standards development work, both in overseeing the work and in participating through nomination of experts to one or more working groups. Liaison members may comment on all ballots based on informing and seeking input from their own relevant stakeholders, and their comments are treated in the same way as comments from ISO members, however they are not entitled to vote.
Please contact the Committee Manager, Mike Henigan, if you are interested in becoming a liaison member.