Standardization: Unifier or Divider?

Sherrie Bolin, President & CEO The Bolin Group

8/22/2008
(Original Publish Date: 12/7/2005)

Does standardization ultimately serve as a unifier or as a divider? Is unification or division a better goal? These are some of the questions participants from government, industry, the legal profession, and academia gathered to address in Vancouver in December 2005. The conference, entitled “Standardization: Unifier or Divider?,” looked at standardization from an industrial policy tool standpoint to determine not only whether standardization unifies or divides, but under what circumstances it is best used for each of these goals.