TOOLKIT

The following resources are freely available to companies and organizations that are looking to learn more about the Standards Boost Business campaign:

• Standards Boost Business Brochure
• Overview Flyer – Questions and Answers for Executives
• Standards Boost Business logo

Want to know more about standards and conformity assessment? Here’s a good place to start:

• Overview of the U.S. Standardization System
• United States Standards Strategy
• United States Conformity Assessment Principles
• The Power of Standardization

Tools and studies from the standardization community – domestic and international:

• American Petroleum Institute: Anything but Standard
• ANSI: The Need for Strategic Standardization Management
• ASME: Examples of Use of Codes and Standards for Students in Mechanical Engineering and Other Fields
• ASTM International: Choosing Standards Based on Merit
• ASTM International: The Impact of Standards on Corporate Profitability
• ASTM International: Standards: The Corporate Edge
• BSI: Faster, smarter, better: Using standards to tackle the recession
• DIN German Institute for Standardization: Economic Benefits of Standardization
• IEC: Business Cases on Standardization
• IEC: Case Studies
• IEC: Empowering You to Lead
• IEC: Active Participation
• ISO: Today’s State of the Art Global Solutions for CEOs
• ISO: What’s the Bottom Line?
• Standards Australia: Benefits of Standards
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat:
  • Education Guideline 1: Case Studies of How to Plan and Implement Standards Education Programs and Strategic Curriculum Model
  • Education Guideline 2: Strategy for Education and Outreach on Standards, Conformity Assessment, and Technical Regulations
  • Education Guideline 3. Standardization: Fundamentals, Impact, and Business Strategy
  • Education Guideline 4. Teaching Standardization in Universities: Lessons Learned from Trial Program, October 2011
  • Education Guideline 5: Inspiring the Next Generation of Standards Professionals - Towards Job Profiling in Today’s Global World

White papers from young, emerging professionals, and students:

• Tiana Ashley Khong, San Jose State University:
  The World in 2050
  first-place winner of the 2017 ANSI student paper competition
• Qahtan Al Jammali, City University of New York:
  Cyborg Gen2330
  second-place winner of the 2017 ANSI student paper competition
• Karmin Chong, City College of New York:
  The Standards of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
  first-place winner of the 2016 ANSI student paper competition
• Amanda Goetz, Branden Hill, Libby Lee, and Jennifer Pattillo; Ferris State University:
  The Bleak Reality of a World without Standards
  second-place winner of the 2016 ANSI student paper competition
• Shane Arlington, New Jersey’s Stevens Institute of Technology:
  Consensus Standards Drove Automotive Fuel Innovation
  first-place winner of the 2015 ANSI student paper competition
• William Gabler, North Carolina State University:
  Building Community: Innovation through Consensus
  second-place winner of the 2015 ANSI student paper competition
• Lu Hao, Georgetown University:
  The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: Equivalence Standards Program in Agricultural Trade
  first place winner of the 2014 ANSI student paper competition
• Justin Carone, Drexel University:
  Standards as Social Design Practice: From the Americans with Disabilities Act to the Accessible Icon Project
  second place winner of the 2014 ANSI student paper competition