Direct answer: the budget for an ISO 56001 innovation management system depends on two things: which R&D and business units the innovation process covers, and the current state of trade secret protection measures. Trade secrets only enjoy legal protection if reasonable confidentiality measures that can be evidenced are already in place day to day, so the two are best planned together.
Two factors determine the budget
| Factor | What it affects |
|---|---|
| Scope of the innovation process | The R&D units and product lines included, and how complete the process from idea to commercialisation is |
| Current confidentiality measures | Whether confidentiality classification, access control, leaver management and data-leak protection already have procedures and records |
How to plan the timeline
- Current-state diagnosis: inventory the gaps in the innovation process and in trade secret protection.
- Innovation management system: build innovation strategy, innovation portfolio and process management on ISO 56001.
- Reasonable confidentiality measures: establish confidentiality classification, access and leaver management, and keep records that can be evidenced.
- Operation and internal audit, followed by the certification audit.
How Winners approaches it
- Plan ISO 56001 innovation management together with the reasonable confidentiality measures required by trade secret law, so that one system serves both innovation and protection.
- Process definition: who is responsible, what is done, when, and where the evidence of doing or not doing it is.
- VP- and director-level consultants guide the whole engagement; consultants hold ISO 56001 lead-auditor credentials.
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Compliance needs all three; a consultant's value is integration
CRA, TISAX, ISO 27701 and the AI Act are not single technical problems. They are only complete when process, security technology and legal compliance all hold at the same time. Fix only one and the gaps in the other two surface during audits, incident reporting or customer due diligence, and the work has to be redone.
| Dimension | The question it answers | Typical gap when only this part is done |
|---|---|---|
| Process (management system) | Who is responsible, what is done, when, where the evidence is, how it improves | Tools are in place but nobody runs them on schedule, so there are no records at audit time |
| Security technology | How controls are designed and how their effectiveness is verified | Documents are complete but the systems do not actually do what they describe |
| Legal compliance | Which regulation applies, which role you hold, the deadlines and penalties | Controls are built against the wrong regulation or role, so obligations are not covered |
Winners' consulting team covers all three dimensions and plans regulatory scoping, process design and technical controls together, so a single body of evidence serves multiple regulations and customer requirements.