Skill standard － Evaluation for skills of human resource required for standardization
Ver.1.02,

2013-04-08

Contents
Introduction
1 Scope2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Structure and notation
5 Tasks for standardization
6 Skill evaluation criteria and skill levels
6.1
Skill evaluation criteria
6.2
Skill levels
7 Skill card template
8 Skill cards
1) Strategy planning for standardization
2) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning3) Supervising (Strategy)4) Liaison establishing (Strategy)5) Founding organization (De jure standards)
6) Founding organization (Forum/Consortium standards)
7) Founding organization (De facto/Company-product standards)
8) Managing organization (Strategy, De jure standards)
9) Managing organization (Strategy, Forum/Consortium standards)10) Managing organization (Strategy, De facto/Company-product standards)
11) Developing associated technology
12) Proposing new work items (De jure standards)
13) Proposing new work items (Forum/Consortium standards)
14) Proposing new work items (De facto/Company-product standards)
15) Drafting standards (De jure standards)
16) Drafting standards (Forum/Consortium standards)17) Negotiating (De jure standards)18) Negotiating (Forum/Consortium standards)19) Marketing (De facto/Company-product standards)20) Managing organization (Development, De jure standards)21) Managing organization (Development, Forum/Consortium standards)22) Managing organization (Development, De facto/Company-product standards)
23) Applying standards24) Conformance testing25) Acquiring certification
26) Acquiring forum certification
27) Acquiring private certification
28) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and promotion planning29) Supervising (Promotion)30) Liaison establishing (Promotion)31) Advertising (De jure standard)32) Advertising (Forum/Consortium standards)

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34) Considering compliance35) Considering human resource development
36) Considering intellectual properties
Annex A (informative) Application
A.1
Various applications
A.2
Guideline to introduction
A.3
FAQ
Annex B (informative) Judging a skill

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Introduction
A person who engages in a task for standardization is requested to have experience, achievement, capability
and knowledge for the standardization, such as contribution, communication, negotiation, leadership,presentation, technology, etc. Today standardization has been an important strategy for an organization,
corporation and nation. Therefore, human resources for standardization are strongly required and education
for standardization becomes essential.
In order to collect appropriate human resources for actual tasks for standardization and to carry out effective
education of standardization, it becomes indispensable-

to clarify the tasks required for standardization, and-to clarify the skills required for the tasks.
Those clarifications are to develop a skill standard itself: Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of humanresource required for standardization
There have been developed in Japan two other skill standards,-

Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for intellectual property, and-Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for information technology.

They are actually used in a number of corporations.
The Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource required for standardization will make it possibleor feasible for a person or corporation to-apprehend and describe existing situation of standardization human resource,-

set a target of education for standardization human resource,-

evaluate effects of standardization education,-collect standardization human resources,-

re-allocate standardization human resource,

develop education programs or materials for standardization human resource.
Accordingly the Skill standard will make it possible or feasible for a nation to strengthen its global
competitiveness in the international industry.
Kanazawa Institute of Technology established a project for developing Skill standard, in response to thecommission from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The project began its activities in June2012 and finished them in Feb. 2013, and developed documents of the Skill standard were submitted to METI.
After march 2013, following-up activities of the project have been taken by SG-SSS (Study Group on Skill Standard
for Standardization) in Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan.
The Skill standard specifies all the tasks required for standardization and defines the skill required for
those tasks. The skills and skill levels are described in skill cards corresponding to the tasks. Skill card
is a set of data for items of skill evaluation criteria on performance and capability.

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Skill standard － Evaluation for skills of human resource required for standardization
Ver.1.02
1

ScopeThis standard clarifies tasks for standardization and provides evaluation for skills of human resource

required for the tasks, specifying skill evaluation criteria and skill levels of the tasks. The hauman resources
are those who are engaged in the tasks for standardization in corporations, or development of international
standards and associated activities for international standardardization.
Note 1This standard can be applied to a guideline for a corporation to employ and educate human resources

for standardization, and a guideline for a personal to set a goal for his/her career development.
Note 2
2

The title of this standard may be simply noted as "Standardization skill standard ".

Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document.
JIS Z 8301, Rules for the layout and drafting of Japanese Industrial Standards
Skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource for intellectual property, Ministry of Economy,

Trade and Industry, 2007-03, http://www.meti.go.jp/policy/economy/chizai/ipss/index.html
3Terms and definitions

3.1
standardization human resource
a person who carries out the tasks for standardization (see clause 5)
3.2
skill
experience and achievement on carring out a task, and capability and knowledge required for the task
3.3
skill carda set of data for items of skill evaluation criteria on performance and capability
3.4
de jure standard
a standard developed by a public standardization organization
3.5
forum/consortium standard
a standard developed by a group called forum or consortium, that consists of interested members
3.6
de facto/company-product standard
a specification that has achieved a dominant position by public acceptance or market forces, or a company
specific convention that has been widely used within products on market
Note 3 Forum/consortium standards are sometimes classified into a private standard due to their unpublicstandardization procedure. Company-product standards are sometimes called as private standards. In thisstandard, company-product standards do not include forum/consortium standards.
3.7

4 / 22houserulea specification used only within a specific organization
Note 4 A specific organization is a corporation, factory, etc.
3.8
leadera person who takes major responsibility for assigned tasks, and for his/her subordinates and associates
related3.9
person in chargea person who takes responsibility within his/her own scope of assigned tasks
3.10
assistanta person who takes no responsibility for his/her tasks
3.11
strategy for standardization
A scheme for nations, organizations or individuals to maximize the benefits of standardization from theirstandardization's point of view. In the scheme, objects to be standardized and not to be standardized areclarified, Regarding the objects to be standardized, organization, schedule, resources and procedures for the
standardization are discussed and effective application and implementation of the developed standard areplanned.
Note 5

Covering areas of the strategy depend on the subject that will plan the strategy and that will employ

the strategy. In the task "1) Strategy planning for standardization" (see Table 1), activities of a nationor organization are planned considering the benefits of standardization from nation's or organization's pointof view. In the task "2) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning", activities ofstandardization groups of an organization are planned (tactics planning) in accordance with the plan discussed
in the task 1). In the tasks 11) through 22), activity planns and guidelines for the groups of standards
development are clarified in accordance with the tactics plan discussed in the task 2).
3.12
experience
history in which a person carried out his/her tasks passively or actively
3.13
achievement
objective progress as a result that a person carried out his/her tasks actively
4Structure and notations
The structure and notations of this standard are based on JIS Z 8301. The composition where skills are definedfor all the categorized tasks has adopted that of skill standard - Evaluation for skills of human resource

for intellectual property.
Skills required for each task are specified in a skill card, where all the skill items are describedindicating the difference from the skill card template. The template includes the minimum common
descriptions for all skill cards (see clause 7). This notation makes it feasible to show the difference
between skills required for different tasks and difference between levels of skill required for a task,
and to show a conformable relationship between task and skill.
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As for the skill card for the task "1) Strategy planning for standardization" (see Table 1) and skill cardsof level 2 for all other tasks, the descriptions with underline show the difference from the template and thedescriptions using subscript characters show deletion from the template. As for the skill cards of level 1
and level 3 for the tasks, the descriptions with bold characters shows addition to the corresponding skill
card of level 2, and the description using subscript characters show deletion from the corresponding skill
card of level 2.
5Tasks for standardization
All the tasks required for standardization are categorized in table 1, where the vertical axis shows task

phase including strategy, development, implementing and promotion, and the horizontal axis shows standard typeincluding de jure standards, forum/consortium standards, de facto/company-product standards and houserules.
Those types are defined in clause 3.4 through 3.7 from the task classification's point of view. The task phases
are not always standard development steps themselves. They may be carried out concurrently or cyclically.
Each task of standardization in a cell of Table 1 is assigned with a sequential number.

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Table 1 Tasks for standardization
Standard TypeDe jure standards
Strategy

Forum/Consortium

De facto/Company-

standards

product standards

Houserules

All types

1) Strategy planning for standardization

planning

2) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning
Tactics3) Supervising (Strategy)4) Liaison establishing (Strategy)organization

6) Founding5) Foundingorganization

organization (Dejure standards)
8) Managing

9) Managing

10) Managing organization

Managing

organization

organization (Strategy,(Strategy, De

organization(Strategy, De jure

Forum/Consortium

facto/Company-productstandards)

standards)

standards)

work items (De jurestandards)

13) Proposing newwork items

14) Proposing new work items (De(Forum/Consortium

facto/Company-product standards)

standards)

Developing15) Drafting16) Drafting standards

standards

standards (De jure

(Forum/Consortium

standards)

standards)17) Negotiating (Dejure standards)

Managing

organization

organization(Development, De19) Marketing (De(Forum/Consortium

facto/Company-productstandards)

standards)

organization(Development,
Forum/Consortium

jure standards)

N/A18) Negotiating21) Managing20) Managing

N/A22) Managing organization(Development, De
facto/Company-product

N/A

standards)

standards)

Applying

23) Applying standards

standards24) Conformance testing

N/A

Acquiringcertification

25) Acquiring

26) Acquiring forum27) Acquiring private

certification

certification

certification

N/A28) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and promotion planning

N/A29) Supervising (Promotion)

N/A30) Liaison establishing (Promotion)

N/A

Promotionplanning
Promotion
Advertising

31) Advertising (Dejure standard)32) Advertising33) Advertising (De(Forum/Consortium

facto/Company-productstandards)

standards)

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N/A

N/A

Implementing

N/A11) Developing associated technology

12) Proposing new

Development

N/A

product standards)

standards)

technology

Phase(De facto/Company-(Forum/Consortium

Developing

Task7) Founding organization

35) Considering human resource development

Founding

34) Considering compliance

Strategy

N/A36) Considering intellectual properties

planning

The tasks 1) through 36) are shown below. The skill required for each task is defined by the corresponding
skill card (see clause 8).
1) Strategy planning for standardization
Standardization activities of a nation or organization are planned considering the benefits ofstandardization from nation's or organization's point of view. This task is carried out mainly by officers.
2) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning
Associated standardization information inside/outside an organization is collected, analyzed and evaluated.
Then, activities of standardization groups of an organization are planned (tactics planning) in accordancewith the plan discussed in the task 1). The tactics are reported to officers.
3) Supervising (Strategy)
Based on the tactics planned in the task 2), collaboration and coordination are performed withinternal/external stakeholders, e.g., research and development groups and associated organizations.
4) Liaison establishing (Strategy)
Based on the tactics planned in the task 2), lobbying activities with government and standardization
organizations are performed to share information and to establish a close liaisonship with them.
5) Founding organization (De jure standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, organizations for de jure standards development andtheir certification are founded.
6) Founding organization (Forum/Consortium standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, organizations for forum/consortium standards
development and their certification are founded.
7) Founding organization (De facto/Company-product standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, organizations for de facto/company-product standards
development and their certification are founded.
8) Managing organization (Strategy, De jure standards)
Strategies for managing following organizations are planned and carried out: organizations for de jurestandards development, organizations for their maintenance and certification.
9) Managing organization (Strategy, Forum/Consortium standards)
Strategies for managing following organizations are planned and carried out: organizations forforum/consortium standards development, organizations for their maintenance and certification.
10) Managing organization (Strategy, De facto/Company-product standards)
Strategies for managing following organizations are planned and carried out: organizations for defacto/company-product standards development, organizations for their maintenance and certification.
11) Developing associated technology
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, technologies associated with standards (including
patent-workaround technology) are developed to make some feedback to the strategy or tactics.
12) Proposing new work items (De jure standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, new work items for de jure standards are proposed toestablish projects for the standards development.
13) Proposing new work items (Forum/Consortium standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, new work items for forum/consortium standards areproposed to establish projects for the standards development.
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In accordance with the strategy for standardization, new work items for de facto/company-product standards
are proposed to establish projects for the specifications development.
15) Drafting standards (De jure standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, draft de jure standards are developed, reviewed andcommented in a project of a standardization committee. Acceptable comments are included in the draft standards.
Based on detailed review, some draft standards are amended, revised or withdrawn.
16) Drafting standards (Forum/Consortium standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, draft forum/consortium standards are developed, reviewed
and commented in a project of a standardization committee. Acceptable comments are included in the draft
standards. Based on detailed review, some draft standards are amended, revised or withdrawn.
17) Negotiating (De jure standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, information sharing and cooperation with other members
are performed to have a concerted action regarding the de jure standard to be accepted or objected.
18) Negotiating (Forum/Consortium standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, information sharing and cooperation with other members
are performed to have a concerted action regarding the forum/consortium standard to be accepted or objected.
19) Marketing (De facto/Company-product standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, specifications of the products on markets areinvestigated and analyzed from users' point of view.
20) Managing organization (Development, De jure standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, organizations for de jure standards development (e.g.,standardization committee) and organizations for their certification are managed.
21) Managing organization (Development, Forum/Consortium standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, organizations for forum/consortium standards
development (e.g., standardization committee) and organizations for their certification are managed.
22) Managing organization (Development, De facto/Company-product standards)
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, groups for specifications development and groups fortheir certification are managed.
23) Applying standards
Due to manufacturing control, associated measurement and evaluation in corporation, quality management isperformed conforming to associated standards.
24) Conformance testing
It is evaluated whether the products conform to corresponding standards, and self-certification check andcompatibility testing are performed.
25) Acquiring certification
A certification authority is requested to assess the products/systems in which the de jure standard are
implemented, and the certification is gained.
26) Acquiring forum certification
A certification authority is requested to assess the products/systems in which the forum/consortium standards
are implemented, and the certification is gained.
27) Acquiring private certification
A certification authority is requested to assess the products/systems in which the de facto/company-product9 / 22

standards or specifications are implemented, and the certification is gained.
28) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and promotion planning
Information on the developed standards is widely collected, analyzed and evaluated. Then, strategies forpromotion of the standards are planned. The promotion strategies are reported to officers.
29) Supervising (Promotion)
Based on the promotion strategies planned in the task 28), collaboration and coordination are performed withinternal/external stakeholders.
30) Liaison establishing (Promotion)
Based on the promotion strategies planned in the task 28), lobbying activities with government andstandardization organizations are performed to share information and to establish a close liaisonship withthem.
31) Advertising (De jure standard)
Tutorials and advertisement of the developed de jure standards are conducted in order to promote and accelerate
wide use and implementation of the standards.
32) Advertising (Forum/Consortium standards)
Tutorials and advertisement of the developed forum/consortium standards are conducted in order to promote
and accelerate wide use and implementation of the standards.
33) Advertising (De facto/Company-product standards)
Tutorials and advertisement of the developed de facto/company-product standards are conducted in order topromote and accelerate wide use and implementation of the standards or specifications.
34) Considering compliance
Legal compliance, lawsuit correspondence, fair trade correspondence and Correspondence to accessibility are
performed.
35) Considering human resource development
In order to raise skills of human resource required for standardization, programs for the education aredeveloped and carried out for members of a corporation.
36) Considering intellectual properties
In accordance with the strategy for standardization, patent policies, patent pools and other information
about intellectual properties for related standards are collected, and patent contract activities aresupported.
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Skill evaluation criteria and skill levels

6.1 Skill evaluation criteria
Skill card is a set of data for items of skill evaluation criteria on performance and capability.
6.1.1

Evaluaion criteria on performance

To evaluate the skill required for tasks for standardization, skill evaluaion criteria on performance(experience and achievement on carring out a task) defines the following items:a) Responsibility
Responsibility indicates a area size of the standardization task that the person has to cover withresponsibility, by using his/her position in performing the task.
b) Experience
Experience indicates history in which a person carried out his/her standardization tasks passively or
actively.

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Achievement indicates objective progress in which a person carried out his/her standardization tasks
actively.
d) Contribution
Contribution indicates the facts that a person carried out his/her tasks, which were not directly related
to standardization itself and were contributed to external or internal of his/her corporation.
6.1.2

Evaluation criteria on capability

To evaluate the skill required for tasks for standardization, skill evaluaion criteria on capability(capability and knowledge required for the task) defines the following items:e) Business comprehension
Knowledge and capability to comprehend the business to carry out the tasks for standardization.
f) Communication
Knowledge and capability to establish human networks by collecting, providing and sharing informationof standardization via communication.
g) Negotiation
Knowledge and capability to make it possible to form consensus via assertion and persuasion in carryingout the tasks of standardization.
h) Planning
Knowledge and capability to extract issues and find appropriate solutions in carrying out the tasks forstandardization.
i) Leadership
Knowledge and capability to manage a standardization organization and to lead the members of theorganization.
j) Presentation
Knowledge and capability to make a presentation and draft documents using a language required in carryingout the tasks for standardization.
k) Technology
Knowledge and capability to comprehend the technology required in carrying out the tasks forstandardization.
l) Operation
Knowledge for various activities required in carrying out the tasks for standardization, and capability
to operate and manage the knowledge.
m) Miscellaneous
Cross-cultural

understanding,foresight,

concentration,

motivation,

charisma,

and

the

knowledge/capability that are difficult to improve through training.
6.2

Skill levels

The skills of human resources required for the tasks for standardization (see clause 5) are classified into
the following three levels.
a) Level 1 - Possessing an experience on carrying out the tasks for standardization, and capable of finding
operational issues and solving them under the guidance of a leader.
b) Level 2 - Possessing an experience and achievement on carrying out the tasks for standardization, and capable
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of finding operational issues and solving them without guidance of a leader (autonomously), or capableof solving the issues by collaborating with other members.
c) Level 3 - Possessing multiple experiences and achievements on carrying out the tasks for standardization,and capable of providing leadership for finding operational issues and solving them, and capable ofproviding guidance to his/her subordinate as a leader (with leading).
Each level of skills required for the tasks for standardization is defined by the corresponding skill card
which includes a set of data for items of skill evaluation criteria on performance and capability. However,No skill level determination is not applied for the task "1) Strategy planning for standardization".
Each level of skills for most tasks are briefly described by the 3 items of skill evaluation criteria on
performance as shown in Table 2.
Table 2
Level
1
2
3

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Skill levels and evaluation criteria on performance
Evaluation criteria on performance

Responsiblity
As an assistant
As a person in charge
As a leader

Experience
One or more experiences with support
One or more experiences autonomously
Two or more experiences with leading

Achievement
Not necessary
One or more achievements
Two or more achievements

Skill card template
The following skill card template includes the core common descriptions for all skill card.

==Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
Achieved and/or experienced as personal in-chargeb) Experience
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;

1) ・・・・c) Achievements
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;1) The achievement of operation indicated in the experience (including as individual and/or group. The same shall apply hereinafter):2) The achievement indicated in the experience contents: ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
3) The achievement indicated in the experience contents: ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
4) The achievement indicated in the experience contents: ＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿＿
5) Appropriately proposed standardization strategy on own main item or the new development product.
6) The outcome of operation indicated in experience has eventually been referred by investors and/or shareholders.
d) Contribution
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;1) Conducted trainings or advised junior employees.
2) Created manual for assigned operations.
3) Taught any internal/external training seminar (including seminars or study sessions for public, children, university students, corporations, orindustries).
4) Participated in internal/external committee as a member (including those of related industries and public offices).
5) Published a thesis based on assigned operations or standard.
6) Presented in an academic conference or an exhibition regarding assigned operations, product, or standard.
7) Composed or published documents (including newspapers, journals, and websites) regarding information (including information or interpretation regarding
specification, information of compatibility, and personal operational experiences).
8) Provided know-how to internal/external related personnel based on personal operational experiences.

==Evaluation criteria on capability==e) Business Comprehension
Satisfy two or more of the following;1) Understand each division’s policy and differentiation within open and closed strategy among corporate strategy, business strategy, research anddevelopment strategy, and intellectual property strategy, and be able to understand minimally, explain, and apply positioning of personally assigned
operations (including domestic, international, and industrial positioning and understanding merit and demerit of positioning) by referring to related
standardization strategy.

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2) Be able to understand, explain, and suggest how can personally assigned operations can contribute to corporate strategy, business strategy, researchand development strategy, intellectual property strategy (including differentiation within open and closed strategy), and/or related standardization
strategy.

f) Communication
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to collect, share, and exchange information smoothly with related personnel from related internal division, domestic and international companies,
and the industry.
2) Be able to understand explanation correctly provided by related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
3) Be able to associate and cooperate with related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.
4) Be able to find collaborators and create a network among related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
5) Be able to create a meeting report, break down other people’s arguments, and explain how they affect internally to related personnel from internal
related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.

g) Negotiation
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to make an appointment, set up a meeting, and provide an opportunity for a negotiation.
2) Be able to present self-opinion, explain self-argument, and convince.
3) Be able to draw other people’s opinions or arguments.
4) Be able to understand a point of an argument and move an argument forward to agreement. Understand internal corporate guideline, prioritize comprisable
matters, and enable to judge situation for corporate merit and demerit perspective while understand and respect other people’s opinion and/or position.

h) Planning
Satisfy following;
1) Find out finding operational issues from the current circumstance and finding out the original solution.

i) Leadership
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Recognize issues or problems of organization that one belongs including a company, a party, and a group, and be able to suggest operational direction(including raising awareness of related personnel, instructing related personnel, setting up a discussion opportunity, encouraging participants for active
involvement and expression, and dealing appropriately with objections or counterarguments by separating arguments and save discussion and put it into
an agenda of the next meeting)2) Be able to suggest an unanimously agreeable goal by reviewing different opinions from a new view of perspective (including differences in relationships
between each division and each division’s strategy, and competition map, industrial activities, and national standardization policy of rival companies).
3) Respect related personnel’s position and build trustworthy relationship with related personnel by following the direction.

j) Presentation
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to understand referral contents of responsible operations (including subjective standard, discussion contents, conversation, questions, opinions,emails, phone calls, regulations, thesis, procedures, trends, examples, issues, and other related information) in an appropriate language (including
technical terms) well enough so one can exchange information, and execute operations (including analysis and surveys).
2) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, share information, negotiation, reporting, creating a meeting summary, andemails), be able to explain (including making presentation documents) and convince in clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary written
languages.
3) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, collect information, share information, negotiation, facilitate meetings,
conversation, make a statement, phone calls, and presentation) be able to explain, present, and convince in a clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate
way with necessary spoken languages.

k) Technology
Satisfy the following;
1) Be able to understand and explain related technical fields of standardization strategy operations (including background, effect, influence, contents
of technology, feature, self-developed technology, similar technology including technical terms, technical trends, and technical discussion, related
technology, competitors’ technology, under-development technology standard technology, technology dealt by IPR policy, and advantageousness), and execute
operations.

l) Operation
Satisfy two or more of the followings including item 3;1) Under proper time management, be able to understand and explain referral contents of operations (including information regarding governmental
standardization agency, operational abstract to make a draft, IP related knowledge, law related knowledge including WTO/TBT arrangements, business model
examples applying standardization or IP, internal policy, internal procedures, external procedures, trends, examples, and issues) and execute operations.
2) Be able to report contents of incidents when any of referral contents found incorrect in accordance with executing operations.
3) Be able to find out issues and guide to solutions in accordance with executing applicable operations.

m) Miscellaneous
Satisfy zero or more of the following;

1) ・・・

As for the skill card for task "1) Strategy planning for standardization" and skill cards of level 2 forall other tasks, the descriptions with underline show the difference from the template and the descriptions
using subscript characters show deletion from the template. As for the skill cards of level 1 and level 3 forthe tasks, the descriptions with bold characters shows addition to the corresponding skill card of level 2,
and the description using subscript characters show deletion from the corresponding skill card of level 2.
8Skill card

1) Strategy planning for standardization

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Note 6

No skill level determination is not applied for this task 1).

==Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
Operated applicable operation as standardization personal in-chargeb) Experience
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following autonomously;1)
By considering the relationship with corporate strategy (including marketing strategy, brand strategy), R&D strategy, IP strategy (Including effective use of open/close
2)
3)
4)
5)

strategy depending on the circumstance), review the proposed strategy, determine on standardization strategy, execute and manage.
By considering the relationship with corporate strategy (including marketing strategy, brand strategy), R&D strategy, IP strategy (Including effective use of open/close
strategy depending on the circumstance), make a decision on conducting standardization or not.
By considering the relationship with corporate strategy (including marketing strategy, brand strategy), R&D strategy, IP strategy (Including effective use of open/close
strategy depending on the circumstance), make a decision on selecting De facto, Forum/Consortium, or De jure.
By considering the relationship with corporate strategy (including marketing strategy, brand strategy), R&D strategy, IP strategy (Including effective use of open/close
strategy depending on the circumstance), adapt business model which utilizes standard and make a decision on execution.
Participated standardization related conference.

c) Achievements
Achieved and/or experienced two or more of the following;
1) As a result of operation indicated in experience, contributed to corporate result with standardization activity. (Including those of individual and of group; this applies to the rest).
2) As a result of operation indicated in experience, appropriately managed the standardization division in the company
3) As a result of operation indicated in experience, positively influenced strategy of own company, industry, government and/or international standardization organization
4) The outcome of operations listed in the contents of “Experience” had been referred to by any investors and shareholders.
d) Contribution
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;1) Conducted trainings or advised junior employees.
2) Created manual for assigned operations.

1) Taught any internal/external training seminar (including seminars or study sessions for public, children, university students, corporations, orindustries).
2) Participated in internal/external committee as a member (including those of related industries and public offices).
5) Published a thesis based on assigned operations or specification.
6) Presented in an academic conference or an exhibition regarding assigned operations, product, or specification.

3) Composed or published documents (including newspapers, journals, and websites) regarding information (including information or interpretation regarding
specification, information of compatibility, and personal operational experiences).
4) Provided know-how to internal/external related personnel based on personal operational experiences.
==Evaluation criteria on capability ==e) Business Comprehension Skill
Satisfy all of the followings;
1) Understand each division’s policy and differentiation within open and closed strategy among Corporate strategy, business strategy, research anddevelopment strategy, and intellectual property strategy, and be able to understand, explain, and apply positioning of standardization-related operation throughout a wholeorganization including personally assigned operations own operation(including domestic, international, and industrial positioning and understanding meritand demerit of positioning) by referring to related standardization strategy.
2)Be able to understand, explain, and suggest how standardization-related operation throughout a whole organization including personally assigned operations can contribute to corporate strategy, business strategy, research and development strategy, and intellectual
property strategy.

f) Communication
Fulfill all of the following;1)Be able to collect, share, and exchange information smoothly with related personnel from related internal division, domestic and international companies,
and the industry.
2)Be able to understand explanation correctly provided by related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
3) Be able to associate and cooperate with related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.
4)Be able to find collaborators and create a network among related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
5)Be able to create a meeting report, break down other people’s arguments, and explain how they affect internally to related personnel from internal
related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.
g) Negotiation
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to make an appointment and set up a meeting (and provide an opportunity for a negotiation by making appointment as off-line.)
2) Be able to present self-opinion, explain self-argument, and convince.
3) Be able to draw other people’s opinions or arguments.
4) Be able to understand a point of an argument and move an argument forward to agreement. Understand internal corporate guideline, prioritize comprisable
matters, and enable to judge situation for corporate merit and demerit perspective while understand and respect other people’s opinion and/or position.
h) Planning
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Find out issues from the current situation(including the positioning from overall perspective) and be able to provide one or more own solutions (including
direction)i) Leadership
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Recognize issues or problems of organization that one belongs and be able to suggest operational direction (including raising awareness of related
personnel, instructing related personnel, setting up a discussion opportunity, encouraging participants for active involvement and expression, and dealing
appropriately with objections or counterarguments by separating arguments and save discussion and put it into an agenda of the next meeting)2) Be able to suggest an unanimously agreeable goal by reviewing different opinions from a new view of perspective (including differences in relationships
between each division and each division’s strategy, and competition map, industrial activities, and national standardization policy of rival companies).
3) Respect related personnel’s position and build trustworthy relationship with related personnel by following the direction.
j) Presentation
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to understand referral contents of responsible operations (including subjective standard, discussion contents, conversation, questions, opinions,emails, phone calls, regulations, thesis, procedures, trends, examples, issues, and other related information) in an appropriate language (including
technical terms) well enough so one can exchange information, and execute operations.
2) In order to execute responsible operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, share information, negotiation, reporting, creating a meeting summary, and emails),

14 / 22be able to explain (including making presentation documents) and convince in clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary written languages.
3) )In order to execute responsible operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, collect information, share information, negotiation, facilitate
meetings, conversation, make a statement, phone calls, and presentation) be able to explain, present, and convince in a clear, simple, logical, plain,appropriate way with necessary spoken languages.
k) Technology
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to understand and explain related technical fields of assigned operations (including background, effect, influence, contents of technology,
feature, self-developed technology, similar technology including technical terms, technical trends, and technical discussion, related technology,
competitors’ technology, under-development technology standard technology, IPR, technology dealt by policy, and advantageousness), and execute
operations.
l) Operation
Satisfy all of the following;1) Under proper time management, be able to understand and explain the knowledge and information, i.e. referred contents are own company policy, procedure, tendency, business case and issues,on assigned operations and execute operations.
2) Be able to report contents of incidents when any of referral contents found incorrect in accordance with executing operations.
3) Be able to find out issues and guide to solutions in accordance with executing applicable operations.

m) Miscellaneous
Satisfy zero or more of the following;
1) Have an interest, concern, or curiosity for products, technology, and different culture.
2) Be understanding of different culture including history and religion, other corporations, and associated corporations.

2) Information collecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning2-1) Level 1== Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
Supported as an assistant (such as a committee member of an in-house committee, those who served on the committee of national standardization organizations,or who participated in the international standardization organizations or its equivalent institutions with a leader).
b) Experience
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following under a leader.
1) Conducted surveys on related standard specifications, and reported trends of related organizations (including companies, countries and industries)
for one or more deliberation for standardization strategy for one’s company, a country, and/or an industry.
2) Understanding trends in 1) and conducted one of the following: confirming positioning of one’s company, analyzing advantageousness, and finding out
issues (including technology aspects, user aspects, accessibility, market expansion, and industrial influencers).
3) Based on research results and/or issues, consulted related divisions (including divisions of planning, technology, quality, intellectual property,
and environment).
4) Understand domestic and international situation (including attending meetings of industry associations and research on overseas trends) and reported
one or both of the outlines of a proposed possible standardization strategy or issues.
c）Achievement（Optional）
Achieved and/or experienced zero or more of the following;1) Influenced company’s direction for product development resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience” (including those of individualand of group. This applies to the rest).
2) Clarified company’s positioning resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”
3) Influenced other company’s standardization strategy resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”4) Expanded market size and/or share of applicable business or technology resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”5) Had internal/external related personnel understand positive and negative influences and effects of a product lifecycle resulting from operations listed
in the contents of “Experience.”6) Proceeded operations listed in the contents of “Experience” on self-developed main products or under-development products.
7) The outcome of operations listed in the contents of “Experience” had been referred to by any executives and shareholders.
d) Contribution
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following. 1) Conducted trainings or advised junior employees
1) Created manual for assigned operations.
2) Taught any internal/external training seminar (including seminars or study sessions for public, children, university students, corporations, orindustries).
3) Participated in internal/external committee as a member (including those of related industries and public offices).
4) Published a thesis based on assigned operations or standard.
5) Presented in an academic conference or an exhibition regarding assigned operations, product, or standard.
6) Composed or published documents (including newspapers, journals, and websites) regarding information (including information or interpretation regarding
specification, information of compatibility, and personal operational experiences).
8) Provided know-how to internal/external related personnel based on personal operational experiences.

== Evaluation criteria on capability==e) Business Comprehension
Satisfy all of the following;1) Understand each division’s policy and differentiation within open and closed strategy among corporate strategy, business strategy, research anddevelopment strategy, and intellectual property strategy, and be able to understand minimally, explain, and apply positioning of personally assigned
operations (including domestic, international, and industrial positioning and understanding merit and demerit of positioning) by referring to related
standardization strategy.
2) Be able to understand, explain, and suggest how can personally assigned operations can contribute to corporate strategy, business strategy, researchand development strategy, intellectual property strategy (including differentiation within open and closed strategy), and/or related standardization
strategy.
f) Communication
Satisfy one or more of the following;
1) Be able to collect, share, and/or exchange information smoothly with related personnel (including leaders, internal related division, other domestic
companies, and/or representatives of industries.
2) Be able to explain simply to related personnel (including leaders and internal related division).
3) Be able to understand explanation correctly provided by related personnel (including leaders, internal related division, other domestic companies,
and/or representatives of industries).
4)Be able to associate and cooperate with related personnel (including leaders and internal related division).
5)Be able to find collaborators and create a network among related personnel.

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Satisfy one or more of the following;
1) Be able to make an appointment and set up a meeting for a negotiation.
1) Be able to present self-opinion, explain self-argument, and convince.
2) Be able to understand a point of an argument and move an argument forward to agreement. Understand internal corporate guideline and prioritize comprisable
matters while understand and respect other people’s opinion and/or position.
h) Planning
Satisfy all of the following;1) Under a leader, be able to find out issues from collected information, research results, and advantageousness of technology, and provide one’s own
solution.
i) Leadership
Satisfy one or more of the following;
1) Be able to recognize issues or problems of organization that one belongs (including a company, a party, and a group) and be able to suggest operational
direction (including raising awareness of related personnel, instructing related personnel, setting up a discussion opportunity, encouraging participants
for active involvement and expression, and dealing appropriately with objections or counterarguments by separating arguments and save discussion andput it into an agenda of the next meeting).
2) Be able to suggest an unanimously agreeable goal by reviewing different opinions from a new view of perspective (including differences in relationships
between each division and each division’s strategy and rival companies of competition mapping, industrial activities, and national standardization policy).
3) Respect related personnel’s position and build trustworthy relationship with related personnel by following the direction.

j) Presentation
Satisfy one or more of the following;
1) Be able to understand referral contents of operations (including subjective standard, discussion contents, conversation, questions, opinions, emails,
phone calls, regulations, thesis, procedures, trends, examples, issues, and other related information) in an appropriate language (including technicalterms) well enough so one can exchange information, and execute operations (including analysis and surveys).
2) In order to create a specification, be able to reflect intentions in accordance with necessary rules (including directives) and with necessary languages.
3) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, share information, negotiation, reporting, creating a meeting summary, andemails), be able to explain (including making presentation documents) and convince in clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary written
languages.
3) )In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, collect information, share information, negotiation, facilitate meetings, conversation, make a statement, phone calls, and presentation) be able to explain, present, and convince ina clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary spoken languages.

k) Technology
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to understand minimally and explain related technical fields of standardization strategy operations (including background, effect, influence,contents of technology, feature, self-developed technology, similar technology including technical terms, technical trends, and technical discussion,
related technology, competitors’ technology, under-development technology standard technology, technology dealt by IPR policy, and advantageousness),and execute operations.
l) Operation
Satisfy two or more (must include “3)”) of the following;1) Under proper time management, be able to understand minimally and explain referral contents of operations (including information regarding governmental
standardization agency, operational abstract to make a draft, IP related knowledge, law related knowledge including WTO/TBT arrangements, business model
examples applying standardization or IP, internal policy, internal procedures, external procedures, trends, examples, and issues) and execute operations.
2) Be able to report contents of incidents when any of referral contents found incorrect in accordance with executing operations.
3) Under a leader, be able to find out issues and guide to solutions in accordance with executing applicable operations.
m) Miscellaneous（Optional）
Satisfy zero or more of the following;
1) Have an interest, concern, or curiosity for products, technology, different culture, and other corporations and industries.
2) Be understanding of different culture including history and religion, other corporations, and associated corporations.

2-2) Level 2== Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
Operated as a representative (served as a committee of the international standardization organization or its equivalent institution).
b) Experience
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following autonomously.1)Conducted surveys on related standard specifications, and understood trends
of related organizations (including companies, countries, industries) for one or more deliberation for standardization strategy for one’s company, acountry, and/or an industry.
2) Understanding trends in “1)” and conducted one of the following: confirming positioning of one’s company, analyzing advantageousness, and findingout issues (including technology aspects, user aspects, accessibility, market expansion, and industrial influencers).
3) Based on research results and/or issues, consulted related divisions (including divisions of planning, technology, quality, intellectual property,
and environment), adjusted, and acquired their understanding.
4) Understand domestic and international situation (including attending meetings of industry associations and research on overseas trends) and recognized
one or both of the outlines of a proposed possible standardization strategy or issues.
5) Understand a domestic and international situation, adjusted in accordance with relevant divisions, and modified the outline of a standardization strategy
draft.
6) Created standardization strategy draft given the condition that satisfies at least one of the steps “1)” to “5)”above.
c) Achievement
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;1) Influenced company’s direction for product development resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience” (including those of individualand of group. This applies to the rest).
2) Clarified company’s positioning resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”
3) Influenced other company’s standardization strategy resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”4) Expanded market size and/or share of applicable business or technology resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”5) Had internal/external related personnel understand positive and negative influences and effects of a product lifecycle resulting from operations listed
in the contents of “Experience.”6) Proceeded operations listed in the contents of “Experience” on self-developed main products or under-development products.
7) The outcome of operations listed in the contents of “Experience” had been referred to by any executives and shareholders.
d) Contribution
Achieved and/or experienced one or more of the following;1) Conducted trainings or advised junior employees
2) Created manual for assigned operations.

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3) Taught any internal/external training seminar (including seminars or study sessions for public, children, university students, corporations, orindustries).
4) Participated in internal/external committee as a member (including those of related industries and public offices).
5) Published a thesis based on assigned operations or specification.
6) Presented in an academic conference or an exhibition regarding assigned operations, product, or specification.
7) Composed or published documents (including newspapers, journals, and websites) regarding information (including information or interpretation regarding
specification, information of compatibility, and personal operational experiences).
8) Provided know-how to internal/external related personnel based on personal operational experiences.
== Evaluation criteria on capability==e) Business Comprehension
Satisfy all of the following;1) Understand each division’s policy and differentiation within open and closed strategy among corporate strategy, business strategy, research anddevelopment strategy, and intellectual property strategy, and be able to understand, explain, and apply positioning of personally assigned operations(including domestic, international, and industrial positioning and understanding merit and demerit of positioning) by referring to related standardization
strategy.
2) Be able to understand, explain, and suggest how can personally assigned operations can contribute to corporate strategy, business strategy, researchand development strategy, intellectual property strategy (including differentiation within open and closed strategy), and/or related standardization
strategy.
f) Communication
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to collect, share, and exchange information smoothly with related personnel (including internal related division, other domestic and international
companies, and/or representatives of industries).
2) Be able to create a meeting summary, break down other people’s arguments, and explain how they affect internally to related personnel (includinginternal related division, other domestic and international companies, and/or representatives of industries)3) Be able to understand explanation correctly provided by related personnel (including internal related division, other domestic and international
companies, and/or representatives of industries).
4) Be able to associate and cooperate with related personnel from internal related division, other domestic and international companies, and/or
representatives of industries).
5)Be able to find collaborators and create a network among related personnel (including internal related division, other domestic and international companies,
and/or representatives of industries).
g) Negotiation
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to make an appointment and set up a meeting for a negotiation.
2) Be able to present self-opinion, explain self-argument, and convince.
3) Be able to draw other people’s opinions or arguments.
4) Be able to understand a point of an argument and move an argument forward to agreement. Understand internal corporate guideline, prioritize comprisable
matters, and enable to judge situation for corporate merit and demerit perspective while understand and respect other people’s opinion and/or position.
h) Planning
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Find out issues from collected information, research results, and advantageousness of technology, and be able to provide one or more own solutions
including standardization tactics and standardization strategy planning upon consideration of merit and demerit when standardization is applied.
i) Leadership
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Recognize issues or problems of organization that one belongs (including a company, a party, and a group) and be able to suggest operational direction(including raising awareness of related personnel, instructing related personnel, setting up a discussion opportunity, encouraging participants for active
involvement and expression, and dealing appropriately with objections or counterarguments by separating arguments and save discussion and put it into
an agenda of the next meeting).
2) Be able to suggest an unanimously agreeable goal by reviewing different opinions from a new view of perspective (including differences in relationships
between each division and each division’s strategy and rival companies of competition mapping, industrial activities, and national standardization policy).
3) Respect related personnel’s position and build trustworthy relationship with related personnel by following the direction.

j) Presentation
Satisfy two or more of the following;
1) Be able to understand referral contents of operations (including subjective standard, discussion contents, conversation, questions, opinions, emails,
phone calls, regulations, thesis, procedures, trends, examples, issues, and other related information) in an appropriate language (including technicalterms) well enough so one can exchange information, and execute operations (including analysis and surveys).
2) In order to create a specification, be able to reflect intentions in accordance with necessary rules (including directives) and with necessary languages.
3) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, share information, negotiation, reporting, creating a meeting summary, andemails), be able to explain (including making presentation documents) and convince in clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary written
languages.
4) )In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, collect information, share information, negotiation, facilitate meetings,
conversation, make a statement, phone calls, and presentation) be able to explain, present, and convince in a clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate
way with necessary spoken languages.
k) Technology
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to understand and explain related technical fields of standardization strategy operations (including background, effect, influence, contents
of technology, feature, self-developed technology, similar technology including technical terms, technical trends, and technical discussion, related
technology, competitors’ technology, under-development technology standard technology, technology dealt by IPR policy, and advantageousness), and execute
operations.
l) Operation
Satisfy two or more (must include “3)”) of the following;1) Under proper time management, be able to understand and explain referral contents of operations (including information regarding governmental
standardization agency, operational abstract to make a draft, IP related knowledge, law related knowledge including WTO/TBT arrangements, business model
examples applying standardization or IP, internal policy, internal procedures, external procedures, trends, examples, and issues) and execute operations.
2) Be able to report contents of incidents when any of referral contents found incorrect in accordance with executing operations.
3) Be able to find out issues and guide to solutions in accordance with executing applicable operations.
m) Miscellaneous（Optional）
Satisfy zero or more of the following;
1) Have an interest, concern, or curiosity for products, technology, different culture, and other corporations and industries.
2) Be understanding of different culture including history and religion, other corporations, and associated corporations.

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== Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
Operated as a leader (served as a official post of the international standardization organization or its equivalent institution).
b) Experience
Achieved and/or experienced two or more of the following with leading;1) Conducted surveys on related standard specifications, and understood trends of related organizations (including companies, countries, industries)
for one or more deliberation for standardization strategy for one’s company, a country, and/or an industry.
2) Understanding trends in “1)” and conducted one of the following: confirming positioning of one’s company, analyzing advantageousness, and findingout issues (including technology aspects, user aspects, accessibility, market expansion, and industrial influencers).
3) Based on research results and/or issues, consulted related divisions (including divisions of planning, technology, quality control, intellectual property,
and environment), adjusted, and acquired their understanding.
4) Understand domestic and international situation (including attending meetings of industry associations and research on overseas trends) and recognized
one or both of the outlines of a proposed possible standardization strategy or issues.
5) Understand a domestic and international situation, adjusted in accordance with relevant divisions, and modified the outline of a standardization strategy
draft.
6) Created standardization strategy draft given the condition that satisfies at least one of the steps “1)” to “5)”above.
c) Achievement
Achieved and/or experienced two or more of the following;1) Influenced company’s direction for product development resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience” (including those of individualand of group. This applies to the rest).
2) Clarified company’s positioning resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”
3) Influenced other company’s standardization strategy resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”4) Expanded market size and/or share of applicable business or technology resulting from operations listed in the contents of “Experience.”5) Had internal/external related personnel understand positive and negative influences and effects of a product lifecycle resulting from operations listed
in the contents of “Experience.”6) Proceeded operations listed in the contents of “Experience” on self-developed main products or under-development products.
7) The outcome of operations listed in the contents of “Experience” had been referred to by any executives and shareholders.
d) Contribution
Achieved and/or experienced two or more of the following;1) Conducted trainings or advised junior employees
2) Created manual for assigned operations.
3) Taught any internal/external training seminar (including seminars or study sessions for public, children, university students, corporations, orindustries).
4) Participated in internal/external committee as a member (including those of related industries and public offices).
5) Published a thesis based on assigned operations or specification.
6) Presented in an academic conference or an exhibition regarding assigned operations, product, or specification.
7) Composed or published documents (including newspapers, journals, and websites) regarding information (including information or interpretation regarding
specification, information of compatibility, and personal operational experiences).
8) Provided know-how to internal/external related personnel based on personal operational experiences.
== Evaluation criteria on capability==e) Business Comprehension
Satisfy all of the followings;
1) Understand each division’s policy and differentiation within open and closed strategy among Corporate strategy, business strategy, research anddevelopment strategy, and intellectual property strategy, and be able to understand, explain, and apply positioning of standardization-related operation
throughout a whole organization including personally assigned operations (including domestic, international, and industrial positioning and understanding
merit and demerit of positioning) by referring to related standardization strategy.
Be able to understand, explain, and suggest how standardization-related operation throughout a whole organization including personally assigned operations
can contribute to corporate strategy, business strategy, research and development strategy, and intellectual property strategy.
f) Communication
Fulfill all of the following;
1) Be able to collect, share, and exchange information smoothly with related personnel from related internal division, domestic and international companies,
and the industry.
2) Be able to understand explanation correctly provided by related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
3) Be able to associate and cooperate with related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.
4) Be able to find collaborators and create a network among related personnel from internal related division, domestic and international companies, andthe industry.
5) Be able to create a meeting report, break down other people’s arguments, and explain how they affect internally to related personnel from internal
related division, domestic and international companies, and the industry.
g) Negotiation
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to make an appointment, set up a meeting, and provide an opportunity for a negotiation.
2) Be able to present self-opinion, explain self-argument, and convince.
3) Be able to draw other people’s opinions or arguments.
4) Be able to understand a point of an argument and move an argument forward to agreement. Understand internal corporate guideline, prioritize comprisable
matters, and enable to judge situation for corporate merit and demerit perspective while understand and respect other people’s opinion and/or position.
h) Planning
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Find out issues from collected information, research results, and advantageousness of technology with leading, and be able to provide one or more
own solutions including standardization tactics and standardization strategy planning upon consideration of merit and demerit when standardization isapplied.
i) Leadership
Satisfy all of the following;
1) Recognize issues or problems of organization that one belongs including a company, a party, and a group, and be able to suggest operational
direction(including raising awareness of related personnel, instructing related personnel, setting up a discussion opportunity, encouraging participants
for active involvement and expression, and dealing appropriately with objections or counterarguments by separating arguments and save discussion andput it into an agenda of the next meeting), manage and control progress of a project, and evaluate.
2) Be able to suggest an unanimously agreeable goal by reviewing different opinions from a new view of perspective (including differences in relationships
between each division and each division’s strategy, and competition map, industrial activities, and national standardization policy of rival companies).
3) Respect related personnel’s position and build trustworthy relationship with related personnel by following the direction.
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Satisfy all of the following;
1) Be able to understand referral contents of operations (including subjective standard, discussion contents, conversation, questions, opinions, emails,
phone calls, regulations, thesis, procedures, trends, examples, issues, and other related information) in an appropriate language (including technicalterms) well enough so one can exchange information, and execute operations (including analysis and surveys).
2) In order to create a specification, be able to reflect intentions in accordance with necessary rules (including directives) and with necessary languages.
3) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, share information, negotiation, reporting, creating a meeting summary, andemails), be able to explain (including making presentation documents) and convince in clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate way with necessary written
languages.
4) In order to execute operations (exchange opinions with related personnel, collect information, share information, negotiation, facilitate meetings,
conversation, make a statement, phone calls, and presentation) be able to explain, present, and convince in a clear, simple, logical, plain, appropriate
way with necessary spoken languages.
k) Technology
Satisfy all of the following;1)Be able to understand and explain related technical fields of standardization strategy operations (including background, effect, influence, contents
of technology, feature, self-developed technology, similar technology including technical terms, technical trends, and technical discussion, related
technology, competitors’ technology, under-development technology standard technology, IPR, technology dealt by policy, and advantageousness), apply
to operations based on comprehension, and execute operations.
l) Operation
Satisfy all of the following;1) Under proper time management, be able to understand and explain referral contents of operations (including information regarding governmental
standardization agency, operational abstract to make a draft, IP related knowledge, law related knowledge including WTO/TBT arrangements, business model
examples applying standardization or IP, internal policy, internal procedures, external procedures, trends, examples, and issues), apply to operations
based on comprehension, and execute operations.
2) Be able to report contents of incidents when any of referral contents found incorrect in accordance with executing operations.
3) Be able to find out issues and guide to solutions (be able to instruct subordinate personnel) in accordance with executing applicable operations.
m) Miscellaneous (Optional)
Fulfill zero or more of the following;
1) Have an interest, concern, or curiosity for products, technology, different culture, and other corporations and industries.
2) Be understanding of different culture including history and religion, other corporations, and associated corporations.

3) Supervising (Strategy)
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Annex A（informative）

Application

A.1 Various applications
A.1.1

Use for a corporationa) Understanding of existing skill
The skill standard can be used to apprehend and describe present situation of standardization human resource.
An example of the use case: Evaluating the skills of three members in our standardization group by using theskill cards of the task "11) Developing associated technology", two of them had a skill of level 1, the otherlevel 2.
b) Setting a target of education
The skill standard can be used to set a target of education for standardization human resource. An exampleof the use case: Our corporation introduced the strategy to develop international standards based on our
corporate specifications. Therefore, skills of all the members in our standardization group regarding the task11) defined by the skill standard should be level 3. To do so, the goal for the member with skill level 2 should
be set to level 3, and the goal for the members with skill level 1 should be set to level 3 within 2 years
through an OJT.
c) Evaluating effects of education
The skill standard can be used to evaluate effects of the actual education with the target. An example ofthe use case: The member with skill level 2 was confirmed to have reached his goal of level 3 by evaluating
his skill using the corresponding skill card. The two members with skill level 1 were still below the level
2. It is difficult to raise the level in a short time through only an OJT, we should conduct an OffJT using
external training programs targeting skill level 2.
d) Collecting standardization human resource
The skill standard can be used to collect standardization human resources by informing, for example, thata position is open for person who has a skill of level 2 and above for the task "30) Liaison establishing(Promotion)" defined by the skill standard.
e) Re-allocating standardization human resource
The skill standard can be used to re-allocate standardization human resource. An example of the use case:
Evaluating skill levels of all the standardization human resources in the distributed companies, it was foundthat members with high skill levels were concentrated in a business company. It will be possible to help raisingskill levels of all the companies by combining re-allocation of human resource and OJT.
f) Explaining tasks of standardization
The skill standard can be used to explain tasks of standardization. An example of the use case: To explain
the kinds of tasks of standardization and the required skill levels, the handout was created for the company
executives or human resource department, referring to the skill standard.
g) Development of education programs or materials for standardization human resource
The skill standard can be used for development of education programs or materials for standardization humanresource in education organizations including a university. An example of the use case: This training program
is for students of the skill level 2 for the task "15) Drafting standards (De jure standards)" defined in theskill standard.
A.1.2

Use for a persona) Career development
The skill standard can be used for career development of a person. An example of the use case: By self evaluation
based on the skill standard, I found I have a skill of level 3 for the task "16) Drafting standards
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standards)",

and

a

skill

of

level

1

for

the

task

"2)

Informationcollecting/analyzing/evaluating and tactics planning". Since my company adopted recently the strategy topromote consortium standards, I would like to voluntarily raise my skill level for the task 2) to level 2.
I will find what I shall do next in accordance with the skill standard.
A.2 Guideline to introduction
A.2.1

Extraction of the necessary tasks

The skill standard covers so much extensive tasks for standardization that it may include tasks which are
not necessary for some corporations. Therefore it is recommended to extract only the required tasks forstandardization from the Table 1 and use only the corresponding skill cards for the corporation.
A.2.2

Customization of skill cards

Some items of skill evaluation criteria include a choice, indicating for example "A, B, or C". Unnecessary
choice can be deleted for customization, indicating for example "A or C".
Regarding example items described as "... etc", a customization can be done by replacing it with an equivalent
item. Regarding an option item described as "zero or more", a customization can be done by deleting it,
A.3 FAQa) Question 1[Q] The skill standard defines that the lowest skill level is level 1. How shall we deal with much lower skill
level?
[A] There is no level lower than level 1 in this skill standard. If you have experienced one of the items listed,
your skill can be classified to level 1 even without any achievement. It is a rarely seen case that the skill
level 1 cannot be applied.
b) Question 2[Q] If one has no achievement, is it impossible to apply the skill level 2 or 3?
[A] If one will surely have an achievement in the near future, he may be dealt with as having an achievement.

Annex B（informative）

Judging a skill

As an example of judging a skill, let us discuss a skill level of an employee in a corporation that has aplan for him to engage in the task of "12) Proposing new work items (De jure standards)".
His (the employee's) profiles are:1) Based on the e-book specification developed in his corporation,2) he submitted an NP to a TC (Technical Committee) of IEC, and3) got a successful result in the NP ballot, and4) created a draft international standard of the e-book as a project leader.
In those works he conducted following activities:5) Understanding the corporate strategy, business strategy, intellectual property strategy and his positionin the business, and referring to associated standardization strategy, he explained his activity plan to members
in his division and was approved by his division director.
6) He provided an appropriate disposition to the comments of national committees on the NP ballot..
7) Before submitting the NP, he explained the proposal to members of associated domestic committees to gettheir agreements on the submission.
8) Before submitting the NP, he explained the proposal to associated members of the international committees
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9) He submitted his paper for his works of drafting the international standard to a domestic academic instituteand made a presentation of the abstract of his paper.
Reviewing the profiles in accordance with items of the skill evaluation criteria for level 2 of the task"12) Proposing new work items (De jure standards)" as shown below, it is clear that he has a skill of level
2 for the task 12). However he has not yet experienced the final ballot for publishing the international standard.
Therefore, it is not yet confirmed that he has the capabilities required by items i) Leadership and l) Operationof the skill evaluation criteria.
==Evaluation criteria on performance==a) Responsibility
He is in charge of a project leader of a TC of IEC.
b) ExperienceHe submitted an NP and drafted an international standard being based on the specification developed in his
corporation.
c) Achievement
The NP was accepted and the project for standardization was established.
d) Contribution
He made a presentation on the draft standard at a domestic academic institute.
==Evaluation criteria on capability==e) Business Comprehension
Understanding the corporate strategy, business strategy, intellectual property strategy and his positionin the business, and referring to associated standardization strategy, he explained his activity plan to members
in his division and was approved by his division director.
f) Communication and g) Negotiation
Before submitting the NP, he explained the proposal to members of associated domestic committees to get theiragreements on the submission.
Before submitting the NP, he explained the proposal to associated members of the international committees
to acquaint them with the submission.
h) Planning and i) Leadership
For establishing a project for standardization, he made an appropriate disposition of the comments on the
NP ballot.
j) Presentation, k) Technology and l) Operation
After the preliminary discussions in associated committees, he led the NP to a successful result andestablished a project to draft his international standard.

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