Companies should ensure that their systems and processes follow industry standards if they want to improve returns on IT investments and make it easier to enable technological change, according to research published last week by the DTI and the British Standards Institution (BSI).
The Empirical Economics of Standards report assesses the relationship between productivity and agreed industry standards. Its statistical analysis suggests that standards contribute £2.5bn a year t...
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