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ICW Chairman Lord Evans was delighted to present Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) with their certificate for achieving ISO 44001. The BSI certificate was presented to DEWA MD & CEO HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer. This is the first certification to be achieved under the ICW scheme to be awarded in the Middle East region, and we hope it will provide a beacon for collaborative working and further close association with DEWA.

David Hawkins, ICW Chief Operating Officer

Find out more about the ICW Collaborative Working Awards 2019

The ICW Awards provided us with the opportunity to present the first company to achieve recognition under the ICW Affliation to B2B Performance Management. As collaborative working becomes more mainstream and the adoption of the International Standard ISO 44001 increases, so for ICW it is important that organisations get the best possible advice and support to harness the benefits. The Consultant Affiliation Programme not only sets a standard for best practice it also provides an opprotunity for ICW to embrace specilist skills.

Congratulations to B2B, John Doyle and his team - we look forward to working with you all.

David Hawkins, ICW Chief Operating Officer

Each year the selection process becomes more challenging but eventually we arrived at some worthy winners and our congratulations to them all.

Congratulations to all those short listed for this year's awards. We had a great evening at the House of Lords to celebrate collaborative working and another successful year for ICW and our thanks to BSI for sponsoring the event and to those member companies that sponsored individual awards. Despite the weather and the diversions of the general election we had a bumper turnout of members and friends.

Read more and view photos from the Awards event

The 2019 Winners

• Industry-to-industry Collaboration: Bam Nuttall, Siemens, Scot Rail and Network Rail
• Public/Private Sector Collaboration: AMEY Defence & Defence Infrastructure organisation
• Supply Chain Collaboration: SRN Alliance
• Collaborative Competence: Skanska
• Innovation: Home Office and Vivace
• Social Impact: Welsh Air Ambulance
• Community Collaboration: Graham Construction & LLWR Cumbria
• Chairman's Awards: Morgan Sindall - Careers in Cumbria
• Collaborative Leadership Award was presented to Lord Evans Chairman of ICW

David Hawkins shares his insight and top tips for ISO 44001 implementation on CQI IRCA website.

Read it here

ICW is delighted that Piera Johnson has been recognised with the award for Committee Management this year at the BSI 2019 Awards. Piera has provided amazing support for the journey from PAS 11000 through BS 11000 and on to ISO 44001. I am sure I speak for all the UK committee members in congratulating her and our thanks for the guidance and contribution over the past 10 years. Long may it continue.

The China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) held their conference to promote the adoption of Collaborative Working and ISO 44001. ICW Chief Ooperations Officer David Hawkins was the Key note speaker, together with a panel discussion including ICW Associate Director Paul Greenwood. Speakers and representatives from across Asia together with 500 attendees participated in a highly engaging day.

The Association for Project Management (APM) and the Institute for Collaborative Working (ICW) joined forces to present a wide ranging agenda focused on delivery of high value, complex, multi-disciplinary projects and the role of organisations working collaboratively in a mutually supportive, trusting, integrated and seamless manner, in order to derive the potential benefits and minimise the risk of failure

Claire Ward ICW CEO opened proceedings and was support by presentations from Jeremy Campbell EMCOR UK, Bill Taylor ICW Associate Director, Ben Cross (Skanska), Stephen Scott (Sellafield Sites Limited) and Jonathan Canioni (Warwick Business School).

A highly productive day.

The ISO committee met in China, chaired by ICW Chief Operations Officer David Hawkins, to continue its work on developing guidance for small and medium sized companies, ISO 44003, and to celebrate the publication of ISO 44002 Guidance for implementing ISO 44001.

ISO’s International Standard for Business Collaboration, ISO 44001, helps organisations get the most out of working together. A new guidance document provides further insight to help them take it to the next step.

The benefits of collaboration in the business world are many, and include the generation of innovative ideas, reduced costs through efficiencies and sharing of resources and access to new services and technologies.

‘ISO 44001, Collaborative Business Relationship Management Systems – Requirements and Framework’, assists companies in establishing and improving collaborative relationships, both within and between organisations.

Now organisations can take the guidance to another level with the recently published ‘ISO 44002, Collaborative Business Relationship Management Systems — Guidelines on the Implementation of ISO 44001’. It provides in-depth knowledge and understanding of the requirements in ISO 44001 to help organisations implement it most effectively.

ISO 44002 provides specific guidance for establishing, developing and managing third-party relationships using the eight-stage life-cycle as detailed in ISO 44001. The information given in the new standard enables organisations to successfully integrate the ISO 44001 business collaboration framework into their existing management systems, processes and procedures, to optimsze the benefits of collaborating.

ISO 44002 is now available for purchase from your national ISO member or the ISO Store.

The ICW Share and Learn session hosted by Leonardo drew 30 plus members of the ICW community together with representatives from MOD, Home Office and ADS for a lively and frank discussion on how collaborative working could be improved between Industry and public sector to help meet government aims. We have started a conversation which will likely run and run.