The benefits of using standards

Using standards can offer a set of powerful business and marketing tools for organizations of all sizes. You can use them to fine-tune your performance and manage the risks you face, while operating in more efficient and sustainable ways. Standards allow you to demonstrate the quality of what you do to your customers, and they help you to see how to embed best practice into your organization.

Improving performance

Success is all about how you perform at every level of your organization. Standards promote a culture of continual improvement.

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Reducing business risk

Businesses today simply can’t afford to take an improvised, reactive approach to risk. Using standards can help you identify your risks and minimize them.

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Becoming more sustainable

By helping you to take a close look at how you’re using energy and resources, using standards can save you money and improve your image, while benefiting the environment.

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Encouraging innovation

In a global economy of rapidly emerging new technologies and markets, standards help set the rules and establish the frameworks, making it easier to innovate successfully.

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Standards for services

If you’re operating in a service industry, you need to pay close attention to your processes to ensure quality doesn’t slip. There is a whole range of standards that can help you out.

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