Standardization: Tactic or Strategy?




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Goetjaer, Netherlands

Standardization: Tactic or Strategy?

Question, is standardization a strategy or a tactic and why?
 

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R.D. van Rees
Project Manager, Netherlands
 

Standardization is a Tool Within Strategy

Dear Goetjaer,
I can keep it real simple. A strategy is a tool you use to achieve a goal or multiple goals. Standardization is a tool within a strategy. Standardization is used to make monitoring of a process more easy and is often used by multinational enterprises because of their size.

 
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zarkaoui Rachid
ICT Consultant, France
 

Standardization: Tactic and Strategy

Standardization should be defined as consolidation of the best practices in a field. There is no standardization without capitalization of know-how. At the operational level, employees enrich the experience of the company or what we call the learning system.
- Standardization is a tactic: the organization learns when doing the business. It means errors are committed during its life. An error should not be repeated twice. Every mistake is a cost for the organization. In other words, it is a mean to reduce costs.
- Standardization is a strategy: standardization responds to a strategy of independency from employees. In this case, employees are the important resource of the company. A key employee can put pressure on the company when he has a rare skill. To be independent, the organization orders its employees to share the knowledge and even to feed the know-how system.

 
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Harp Minhas, United Kingdom
 

When to Avoid Standardisation

Standardisation within a business is surely to be avoided where it is not essential as it inhibits c... Sign up

 
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Max Pindo
Manager, France
 

Standardisation can be Dangerous

Standardisation is also a danger for managers who may wrongly believe (by extrapolation) that the co... Sign up

 
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Harp Minhas, United Kingdom
 

Standardisation Impedes Innovation

True and in these days of constant changes in the workplace, applying existing standards and procedu... Sign up

 
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Max Pindo
Manager, France
 

Deciding what is Really New

The point in "reactive mode" is: deciding what looks like a new reality: how can we tell if somethin... Sign up

 
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Srikumar Varma
India
 

Standardization is a Recurring Strategy

Standardization is consolidation of the best practices in a field. The process of standardization is... Sign up

 
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Zimin Andrew Alexander, Russian Federation
 

Standardization is Suicidal

Standardization = suicide, so it can't be strategy...... Sign up

 
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Ibrahima Diallo, United States
 

Innnovation based on Standardization

Standardization should not be viewed as the antonym of innovation, or else you lose sight of its val... Sign up

 
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Pashupati Nath verma
Professor, India
 

Is Standardization Tactical or Strategic?

It depends on the objective of the standardization, long term or short term, strategic or tactical.... Sign up

 
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Mahmoud Khashab
CEO, Libya
 

Standardization in Developing Countries

Standardization in developing countries is a strategy, because they are not real industrial nations ... Sign up

 
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John Henry
Project Manager, United States
 

Standardization is a Strategic Tactic

Using old answers for new problems may not resolve the issues at hand (in the best way). But standa... Sign up

 
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Chaonamwene
Student (MBA), Malawi
 

Standardisation is a Tactic and Strategy

@Zarkaoui Rachid : I agree. Standardisation is a process and standards are conceived as a body of c... Sign up

 
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Ade
Supply chain Analyst, United Kingdom
 

Standardization Can Encourage Control of Processes

Standardisation can be used at different levels of strategic development to achieve organisational g... Sign up

 
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NANG Theophile
Student (University), Cameroon
 

Innovation and Standardization Priority Issues

Hi @Ibrahima Diallo, Standardization as starting point of innovative procedures is good in mind, but... Sign up

 
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Belay Gezahegn
Director, Ethiopia
 

Standardisation in Services Industries

Standardisation confines employees to think in a certain way and prohibits to think differently. Thi... Sign up

   

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