How Standards Bodies Provide Business Value
Channel: The Open Group
Date: 2019-03-18

Overview
Standards are a good thing
  - Workforce flexibility
  - Interoperability
  - Process optimization
Get to the business value by
  - Using in products and services, and skills development
  - Demonstrating capability to, and influencing, the market
  - Networking at events and through communities
Value and ROI can be estimated to make a positive business case
Standards can be fun!

Presenter:
Chris Frost is with Fujitsu's Global Technology Strategy Office, leading on standards in internal tools and methods. Chris has been in Enterprise Architecture for almost 20 years, and is a member of the TOGAF Standard Standing Committee. Chris has been in the IT industry for about 35 years, starting off by programming industrial control systems for Ford, and then progressing through a variety of end-user and service providers companies, large and small, before joining Fujitsu in 2005. He is based in the UK.