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The Strategic Significance of Standardization
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The global economy, global competition, and the global customer are all factors driving change into the way companies manage their businesses. As the vision of a global economy becomes a reality, the utilization of standardization philosophies and techniques emerge as strategic priorities for companies desiring to gain and/or sustain global competitiveness.
This paper begins with an exploration of the literature that identifies the lack of standardization and standards as a strategic competitive weakness of American industry. The exploration culminates in a series of conclusions that lead to the development of a new strategic approach to standardization and the challenges facing American industry. This new approach is called Strategic Standardization Management™. The paper then outlines the benefits of standardization and describes a generic transformation process that a company can use to implement Strategic Standardization Management™. The paper concludes by identifying areas and issues that have a strategic standardization component, areas that need continuing action by American industry and have the potential to incease the global competitiveness of American industry.
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Criqui, F., Niks, S., and Pomicter, K., "The Strategic Significance of Standardization," SAE Technical Paper 952787, 1995, https://doi.org/10.4271/952787.Also In
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