BSI British Standards delivers leading-edge best practice solutions through the development and publication of standards and related information products.
As the publishing division of the BSI Group, we offer a wide range of products and services that can help you to successfully implement best practice, manage business critical decisions and achieve excellence.
BSI British Standards gives you access to a portfolio of over 20,000 publications including:
- standards
- online and electronic information
- interpretative guides and books.
Ensure your organization benefits from standards.
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Using technical specifications and common parameters to check technical delivery conditions, product specifications and test methods can benefit your organization to ensure you consistently deliver the exact product and exceed quality assurance targets; help streamline manufacturing processes to gain efficiencies; make time and cost savings; and increase focus on company long-term growth. These benefits are supported by research published by BSI and the DTI (now Department for Innovation, University and Skills). This report - The Empirical Economics of Standards (file size 969kb) - reveals that:
- standards make an annual contribution of £2.5 billion to the UK economy
- 13 per cent of the growth in labour productivity is attributed to the role of standards
- standards are an enabler of innovation and facilitator of technological change
- the economic return from investment in standards makes sound business sense at both a macro and micro-economic level.
