Foundations For Standards Leadership Training Course by ACTS & ACCURIS

This program will demystify the complex world of standardization, present the fundamentals of standardization, its role and importance, its ecosystem and the key players, the various business models, the various types of standards, their development, and their use by businesses. It will cover aspects such as conformity assessment and certification, and how organizations can use standards strategically, efficiently participate to their development and develop a culture of standards.

Over 5 days, Foundations for Standards Leadership will immerse you in an intense, highly experiential setting, exposing you to the most current opportunities and challenges that standards present for businesses. Your journey will include business cases and practical approaches shared by dynamic, high-energy, and renowned experts.

This course is specifically designed to develop an extensive practical knowledge of those working with standards and conformity schemes – whether newcomers or seasoned professionals.

You will leave the program with a fully integrated view of standardization, its value for business, and a powerful toolkit so that lasting value can be delivered to your organization.

Value for the participants

• Build cross-functional abilities: Participants will strengthen their knowledge of the impact of standards for key business functions with application to multiple business contexts for maximum impact.
• Increase value creation: Participants will increase their awareness of how value can be created by integration standardization into both the strategic and core aspects of their organization.
• Become a better strategic decision-maker: Understand the complexity of the standardization ecosystem and the fundamental characteristic of standards will help you take better decisions for your company, with skills to identify sources of performance, competitive advantage, innovation, and sustainability, using standards.

Who should attend

New standards professionals and anyone working with or interested in standards and conformity assessment (C-suite, corporate managers, engineers, government and public administration staff, standards developing organization staff and volunteers, consumers, and faculty and students).