TOOLKIT

The following resources are freely available to companies and organizations that are looking to learn more about the Standards Boost Business campaign:

Want to know more about standards and conformity assessment? Here’s a good place to start:

Tools and studies from the standardization community – domestic and international:

American Petroleum Institute: Anything but Standard
ANSI: The Need for Strategic Standardization Management
ASME: Examples of Use of Codes and Standards for Students in Mechanical Engineering and Other Fields
ASTM International: Choosing Standards Based on Merit
ASTM International: The Impact of Standards on Corporate Profitability
ASTM International: Standards: The Corporate Edge
BSI: Faster, smarter, better: Using standards to tackle the recession
DIN German Institute for Standardization: Economic Benefits of Standardization
IEC: Business Cases on Standardization
IEC: Case Studies
IEC: Empowering You to Lead
IEC: Active Participation
ISO: Today’s State of the Art Global Solutions for CEOs
ISO: What’s the Bottom Line?
Standards Australia: Benefits of Standards
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat:

White papers from young, emerging professionals, and students:

Tiana Ashley Khong, San Jose State University:
The World in 2050
first-place winner of the 2017 ANSI student paper competition
Qahtan Al Jammali, City University of New York:
Cyborg Gen2330
second-place winner of the 2017 ANSI student paper competition
Karmin Chong, City College of New York:
The Standards of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
first-place winner of the 2016 ANSI student paper competition
Amanda Goetz, Branden Hill, Libby Lee, and Jennifer Pattillo; Ferris State University:
The Bleak Reality of a World without Standards
second-place winner of the 2016 ANSI student paper competition
Shane Arlington, New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology:
Consensus Standards Drove Automotive Fuel Innovation
first-place winner of the 2015 ANSI student paper competition
William Gabler, North Carolina State University:
Building Community: Innovation through Consensus
second-place winner of the 2015 ANSI student paper competition
Lu Hao, Georgetown University:
The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Equivalence Standards Program in Agricultural Trade
first place winner of the 2014 ANSI student paper competition
Justin Carone, Drexel University:
Standards as Social Design Practice: From the Americans with Disabilities Act to the Accessible Icon Project
second place winner of the 2014 ANSI student paper competition

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Beyond the bottom line: standards impact quality, lead-time, factory flexibility, and supply chain management.

Standardization and conformity assessment activities lead to lower costs by reducing redundancy, minimizing errors, and reducing time to market.

Demonstrating compliance to standards helps your products, services, and personnel to cross borders. Standards also make cross-border interoperability possible, ensuring that products manufactured in one country can be sold and used in another.

Businesses not only reduce the economic risk of their research and development activities by participating in standardization, they can also lower their overall R&D costs by relying on previously standardized technologies and terminologies.