This study explores the need to establish a comprehensive system for innovation management within organizations to enhance their innovation capability. While the public sector's emphasis on quality management it can limit exploratory approaches within the organization. The traditional model of quality management needs to be augmented with an innovation culture and practices to promote innovation in public sector organizations. The study describes a process of connecting theory alongside with the principles and elements of the ISO56000-series with an organization's preconditions for innovation and their way towards an Innovation Management System (IMS). This process can help create a common language for innovation within an organization and inspire ways to implement an IMS from an inside-out perspective. The research involved a series of seminars and workshops on different areas of innovation management, which resulted in the identification of five aggregated dimensions.