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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