What It Is

ISO 37001:2025 Anti-Bribery Management Systems is an international certifiable standard providing requirements for establishing, implementing, and improving an ABMS. Its primary purpose is preventing, detecting, and responding to bribery risks across organizations, using a risk-based, proportionate approach aligned with PDCA cycle and Harmonized Structure for integration.

Key Components

• Clauses 4-10 cover context, leadership, planning, support, operations, evaluation, improvement.
• Core controls: anti-bribery policy, risk assessments, due diligence, financial/non-financial controls, training, reporting.
• Built on leadership accountability, third-party management, continual improvement.
• Optional third-party certification with audits.

Why Organizations Use It

• Mitigates legal risks (FCPA, UK Bribery Act), reduces liability.
• Builds stakeholder trust, enhances reputation, cuts compliance costs up to 15%.
• Enables market access, ESG alignment, operational efficiencies.

Implementation Overview

• Phased: gap analysis, risk assessment, controls design, training, audits.
• Scalable for all sizes/sectors; 6-12 months typical.
• Certification via Stage 1/2 audits, surveillance.

What It Is

TOGAF® Standard (The Open Group Architecture Framework) is a vendor-neutral enterprise architecture framework. Its primary purpose is to provide a proven methodology for designing, planning, implementing, and governing enterprise-wide change across business and IT. The core approach is the iterative Architecture Development Method (ADM), which organizes work into phases from preparation to change management.

Key Components

• **ADM10 phases including Preliminary, Vision, Business/Data/Application/Technology Architectures, Opportunities, Migration, Governance, and Change Management.
• **Content FrameworkDeliverables, artifacts (catalogs, matrices, diagrams), and building blocks (ABBs/SBBs).
• **Content MetamodelCore entities like actors, services, data, applications, technology.
• Enterprise Continuum, reference models (TRM, SIB, III-RM), guidelines/techniques, and Architecture Capability Framework.
• Voluntary certification via Open Group paths.

Why Organizations Use It

Aligns strategy with execution, improves efficiency/ROI via reuse, avoids vendor lock-in, enhances governance/risk management. Builds stakeholder trust through consistent standards and traceability.

Implementation Overview

Tailored, iterative ADM cycles with maturity assessments, pilots, governance boards. Suited for large enterprises across industries; requires training, repository, phased rollout (foundation, pilot, scale). No mandatory audits.