Standards Portfolio Management; Making strategic choices about standards

Organisations accept that strategy is fundamentally about making choices. But when it comes to the standards that underpin their operations they are less confident about making choices in a clear strategic manner. This clue to solving this dilemma is in finding the common ground between a business view of standards and an operational view. Model based approaches can help to bring clarity and transparency to this middle ground thus uncovering some simple but powerful connections between strategy and operations. Once this link is made organisations are in a position to optimise their standards systems with respect to clear strategic choices.