Welcome to Standards Outlook

Issue one of Standards Outlook explores how standards improve trade around the world and at home. The trade issue examines:

• the Commonwealth Standards Network
• how BSI can help small business to unlock their potential through the use of Standards
• AI in healthcare

BSI is pioneering new ways of collaborating with standards makers and users to ride the wave of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Read the innovation issue to find out about:

• how BSI is working to bring ethics to innovation
• the Future Standards Programme
• Digital manufacturing

Issue three focuses on how BSI is helping businesses understand how standards could assist them with the challenges they face, including:

• Consultancy Services
• how BSI is helping China to join the international standards community
• the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN)
• PAS (Publicly Available Specification)

The fourth issue of Standards Outlook focuses on how standards could help you do your part in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Read the sustainability issue to find out about:

• Industry decarbonization and the circular economy
• Sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and climate change
• Smart cities and communities
• Diversity, inclusion and equality

The fifth issue of Standards Outlook explores how standards can help your organization harness the power of digitalization.

Read the digitalization issue to discover more about the following topics: 

• Making the case for digital manufacturing 
• Building blocks for digitalization 
• Double vision 
• ''First, do no harm'' AI and medical devices
• Educating energy - energy supply and digitalization 
• Blockchain 
• Standards virtual conference

The sixth issue of Standards Outlook focuses on how your organization can use standards to build and maintain resilience in an uncertain and dynamic world.

Issue six explores standards and resilience in areas including:

• Environment, Social and Governance
• Supply Chain 
• Built environment
• Cyber Risk
• Oil and Gas
• Digital Manufacturing
• Construction

In the seventh issue of Standards Outlook, BSI experts, as well as external professionals, demonstrate how standards should be perceived as essential business tools for the UK Government to help create new and innovative trade opportunities for companies in the UK.

Issue seven includes the following topics:

• Making international standards work for trade agreements
• Giving consumers a say in trade policy
• Maintaining low friction access to the European market
• How to build trust in digital trade
• Case study: ‘Working with standards is critical to our brand.'

Following from COP26, the latest issue of Standards Outlook looks at how standards play a crucial role in steering us towards a sustainable world for future generations.

Issue 8 includes:

• Carbon countdown – trust and transparency are critical to the fight against global warming
• On the road to net zero – transport and energy decarbonization
• Healthy mind, healthy body - recognizing the importance of mental health at work
• Built environment – infrastructure finds its place in a system of systems
• Sustainability in the agri-food sector
• Lifting the lid on modern slavery
• UN Global Compact - turning sustainability commitments into action