# Presentation: 327588

## A global market requires global standards education:

- A strategy to prepare the workforce of tomorrow

## Context of PresentationMy thoughts as I developed the presentation

- Many organizations invested in the educations of standards
- ANSI
- SES
- IFAN
- ICES
- Some with strategic plans, some not
- Some organizations have a clear vision of their role and their strategic direction
- Others do not have clear strategic plan, just moving ahead
- How do organizations know what their strategic destination should be?
- What external and internal consideration go into developing their strategic goal
- Is the difficulty in developing a strategic goal preventing an organization from developing a strategic plan
- Maybe there are some common goals we could all be working toward
- We are different organizations with different drivers, but are their commonalities that we can find

## Goals of the presentation

- Open dialogue on strategies
- Over the past two days we have heard the practices of many organizations and regions..how do we capitalize and move forward together
- A starting point
- I am presenting one of many methodologies of strategy development, my goal for this to be used as a springboard to further discussions

## Strategy

- Where you want to go tomorrow
- Where are you today
- Things you will and will not do to get there

- Today

- Tomorrow

- Fundamental definition of strategy

## Current State

- SES

- ASTM

- SA

- Europe

- ASIA

- Standards
- Education

- Strategic Destination

**Current State**

- Notice everyone following own path, with strategic goal being the culmination of everyone’s goals

## Future State

- SES

- ASTM

- SA

- Europe

- ASIA

- Standards
- Education

- Strategic Destination

**Future State**

- Notice a smaller strategic destination because of common goal setting

## Defining strategic destination

- What work force needs to know
- about standards

- The strategic destination is made up in part by the needs/wants of the market and what the workforce must know relative to standards in order to satisfy those needs

## Market Drivers

- Consumers
- Safety
- Performance
- Interoperability
- Companies
- Shareholder Value
- Increased Revenue
- Decreased Cost
- Governments
- Public Safety
- Fair Trade
- Economic Growth

- We will take a closer look at the corporate drivers and how they impact the needs of standards education

## Corporate Objectives

- To help define the corporate goals we look at a real corporate strategy
- Financial Objectives are what are the critical few financial goals that will define success for the organization

## Corporate Objectives

- The customer perspective defines the organizations value proposition for the targeted customer

## Corporate Objectives

- Describes the critical internal process that an organization must excel at in order to satisfy the value proposition to the customer

## Corporate Objectives

- The learning and growth perspective describe the critical resources (skills and technical infrastructure) that an organization must have in order to excel at the internal processes, in order to satisfy the value proposition, in order to accomplish their financial objectives

## Corporate Strategy Map

## What does the workforce needs to learn about standards?

## If you take the same methodology as the corporate strategy and apply it to a standards education strategy the top level objective is for the learner to apply the value of standardization to their organization

***Learning Objective***

## If the learner is considered the customer, these are examples of what is needed from the learner’s perspective

- Satisfied with relevance and quality of material

***Learner***

- Ease of access to education

## How do we teach the workforce?

## In order for our global workforce to be able to apply the strategic value of standardization to their organization, these are examples of the critical process in which we must excel

## In order to excel at the previous processes, we must have the below resources in place

- Information Technology / Tools

- Professors who understand the value/importance of standards

- Technical experts wiling to lecture

- Case study development

- Standardization education modules available for use by professors

***Teaching Resources***

- Funding

## Standards Education Map

***Learning Objective***

## Next Steps

## Relevance of content

- Learning Objective

- Stakeholders

- Learning Process

- Teaching Resources

**Improve Product Development/Design**

- Integration into engineering curriculum

- Knowledgeable  professors

- Integration into business curriculum

- Funding

- This is a slice of the strategy map and examples of what the balanced scorecard would look like to support the strategy map

## Conclusion

- Move standards education forward collaboratively, through:
- Strategy - Organizations with clear direction of things they will do and not do
- Destination - Can’t tell if you are making progress unless you know where you are headed
- The specific examples I used are just that, examples.  The point is for a group of like-minded organizations to become signatories to a global strategy and go through the process to determine what are the appropriate objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives

## Contact Info

- Steve Ezar
- Managing Partner
- Standards Management International. LLC
- 412-337-7264
- sezar@standardsmgmt.com
- www.standardsmgmt.com