Management review
A planned activity in which top management evaluates the quality management system's continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. Under prEN 18286 Section 10.2, management review inputs include internal audit results, post-market monitoring data, quality objective performance, and changes in regulatory requirements. Outputs include decisions on continual improvement, resource changes, and QMS updates. Management review minutes are among the primary evidence documents a notified body or market surveillance authority will request to verify the QMS is operational rather than merely documented.
Defined in 3 GAGE programs, which carry 4 distinct definitions of it. The wording above is taught in EU AI Act Implementation Expert.
How each discipline defines it
The same term does different work depending on who is using it. These are the definitions as each program teaches them, unedited.
A planned activity in which top management evaluates the quality management system's continuing suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness. Under prEN 18286 Section 10.2, management review inputs include internal audit results, post-market monitoring data, quality objective performance, and changes in regulatory requirements. Outputs include decisions on continual improvement, resource changes, and QMS updates. Management review minutes are among the primary evidence documents a notified body or market surveillance authority will request to verify the QMS is operational rather than merely documented.
The Clause 9 activity in which top management formally examines the management system's performance and decides what to improve. Together with the internal audit it constitutes the Check phase of Plan-Do-Check-Act and is evidence the auditor expects.
The periodic session in which those accountable for the compliance programme examine its performance and decide what to change, producing decisions, actions, programme changes and minutes.
Consideration of the management system by leadership at planned intervals, with defined inputs and outputs. One of the four parts that make a system rather than a project.
Where it is taught
The exact lessons this term appears in. The first module of every program is free with a free account.
- ISO/IEC 42001: standing up an AI management system without drowning in it · The World's Rulebooks, Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)
- Compliance monitoring, testing, and management review · Compliance Management Systems and Regulatory Intelligence, Certified Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (CEGP)
- ISO/IEC 42001 and the AI management system · AI Governance, AI Risk, AI Security, and AI Assurance, Certified Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance Professional (CEGP)
- Quality Management System (Article 17) · High-Risk AI Requirements: The Technical File, EU AI Act Implementation Expert
Where it shows up at work
A definition is where Management review starts. The lessons above teach it inside the competencies below, which are what job descriptions ask for and what the GAGE credential records. Every link here is drawn from the same careers map that builds a role's readiness check.
Builds and audits an AI management system: context, leadership, planning, support, operation, performance evaluation, improvement and the Annex A controls.
3 lessons on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Defines who reviews AI outputs, what they check, when they can override, and how to keep review from becoming a rubber stamp.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Finds every AI system in use, records owner, purpose, data and risk tier, and keeps the record alive as tools change.
One lesson on this page teach it as a primary outcome.
Roles that hire for it
Each role page shows the full competency set, what the seat decides, and a readiness check against your own evidence.
- AI Auditorneeds working knowledge · 9 open postings this week
- Senior AI Compliance Analystneeds working knowledge
- AI Governance Managerneeds it at depth
- AI Compliance Specialistneeds working knowledge · 1 open posting this week
- AI Governance Coordinatorneeds it at depth
- GRC Associate (AI)needs working knowledge
How job descriptions say it
Postings rarely use the textbook word. These are the phrases the careers map reads as asking for the competencies above.
Where the frameworks place it: ISO/IEC 42001:2023; ISO/IEC 23894; ISO/IEC 42005; EU AI Act Article 14.
One interview question about it
What does an ISO/IEC 42001 management system add that a set of policies does not, and how would you prepare for certification?
Asked of candidates for iso/iec 42001 management systems. Answering it in your own words is exactly how a GAGE topic is passed, and the credential records the pass where an employer can check it.
Terms it appears with
Not an alphabetical neighbourhood: these are the terms taught in the same lessons, ranked by how often they appear together.