The number of things in the world that need to be managed is seemingly infinite. But before you can manage something, you need to be able to measure it. Words...
The transformation from fixed communications systems such as railroads and telephony to adaptive communications systems such as the Internet is evidence of a paradigm shift. This paradigm shift is made...
While patents can be powerful business assets, it’s easy to confuse patent licenses with technology licenses. The reality of patent power in the business world is often limited, and, in...
Government bodies have been playing an active and frequently controversial role in many standards competitions in recent decades. The growing literature on standards by economists has largely neglected this role....
...standardise the XML-based tags that are used in business reporting so that the business reports prepared by organisations can be more easily compared and collated for regulatory and other purposes....
...identifies the motivations that each category has for participating in standard setting; gives examples of how and why those stakeholders that have the most at stake in the outcome of...
Standards and best practices have been identified as critical resources in the management of electronic records. What is the role of standards and best practices in RIM? If standards are...
...to finally allow information locked in disparate proprietary “silos” to pass freely between all units and levels of government. Externally, they can provide cheaper and better ways to serve the...
...there is a Satan, then cheatgrass is certainly an example of his work at its diabolical best. The design of cheatgrass is disarmingly simple, but its execution is devilish, and...
...hope they conclude that this transformation was managed wisely, and that the competencies and best practices that have been carefully developed over the last 130 years of standards setting are...