All businesses want to boost productivity and efficiency while reducing errors and accidents, but this is especially important for small businesses operating with tighter budgets and smaller staffs.

Mitchell Grant is a self-taught investor with over 5 years of experience as a financial trader. He is a financial content strategist and creative content editor. Standardization creates consistency ...

Standardization helps hospitals and health systems reduce costs and improve clinical outcomes, but in a survey conducted by Cardinal Health, 54 percent of healthcare professionals said their ...

Paul Murphy opined recently on the relative merits of standards versus standardization. To paraphrase, standards are good because multiple products do things in the same general way, thus making them ...

Some scientists suggest that environmental standardization may lead to spurious findings. The implication from this hypothesis will likely be controversial. A major tenet of science is the ability to ...

There's a big difference, and it's very simple: standards are good, standardization is bad. When an industry develops to standards, what you get is competition, buyer choice, and technical progress.