BENEFITS OF STANDARDS

Standards can help you improve your sustainability

How can standards make you more sustainable?

Using standards can help you save energy, save money and save the environment.
Sustainability has never been more important. But at the same time, people are more cynical than ever about ‘green’ marketing claims. They want to see proof of your commitment to tackling environmental and social challenges.

Implementing our standards can help you to demonstrate your credentials to customers, employees and stakeholders, and showcase your commitment to sustainable development.

We produced the world’s first environmental management standard in 1992, and since then we’ve led the way in developing new standards such as energy management and sustainable event management.

Today we can help you deliver substantial environmental, economic and social benefits, whatever your size, sector or geographical location. We can help you identify and manage the impact of your business on the environment and community, understand relevant legislation, and most importantly use resources more efficiently by implementing powerful policies across your organization. This not only helps the environment, it makes a real difference to your bottom line.

Benefits of International Standards

Increase productivity and help organizations access new markets

For Businesses, For Society, For Government

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Standards help service organizations

When you’re offering a service you need to satisfy your customers, and that relies on delivering consistent quality time after time. Standards offer a superb set of tools to achieve consistent quality.
Standards lay out good practice for carrying out a whole range of services and the processes and systems that underpin them. They also explain how to build a culture that encourages the delivery of high quality services. And there’s also an array of standards that apply across specific key service sectors.
That’s not all: in a complex, interconnected global economy, standards can help you work seamlessly with supply chains and partners, and provide assurance to those procuring services, whether in the same region or on the other side of the world. They do this by providing a common language and helping to define service requirements, customer expectations and recognized terms and definitions. They also reduce the risks that might hit customers, such as data security vulnerabilities.

Reduce Risks

Standards and schemes reduce risk and build stakeholder confidence

Developing the Future by reducing business risks

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What sort of improvements can you make by using standards?

Environmental management – Use fewer resources, cut waste, increase recycling and reduce landfill
Energy management – Reduce your energy costs.
Emissions verification – Don’t just declare it, verify it
Carbon neutrality – Achieve net zero carbon emissions.
Social accountability – Understand and improve your impact on your local community.
Sustainable procurement – Show your commitment to renewable resources.

And much more, from sustainable communities to corporate social responsibility.

What results do organizations gain?

attribute direct cost savings to ISO 14001

Report improvements to their corporate reputation

Improve their compliance

Report higher morale among staff

Source: International WE Certification Research 2011

How standards ensure quality services

Standards can help you plan, design and deliver services which will work from launch. They help you embed reliable processes, systems and – crucially – behaviors. The standards can take the form of specifications, guidelines, methodologies for particular tasks, and terms and definitions (which help your systems draw on global best practice).
Almost any organization involved in delivering or procuring services will see value from standards designed to help embed quality processes, policies and procedures and to help reduce risks to customers and clients.
Worldwide Excellence has also developed a number of standards working with specific service industries in order to set the benchmarks for good practice, professionalism and to help provide assurance to customer and ensure their expectations are met.

Standards and schemes for enhancing innovation

Businesses looking to commercialize emerging technologies are part of a developing business ‘ecosystem’, and the stronger they can exploit the networks within the ecosystem, the faster the market for their products will grow.

The development of standards can help an emerging technology ecosystem rally round the issues to promote successful commercialization of new products. This is why standards can make such a difference to the success of innovative businesses: they create a common framework for innovation and establish the ‘rules of the game’. Standards set the framework by defining common vocabularies, establishing the essential characteristics of a product or service, and by identifying the best practice within the ecosystems that will ensure successful outcomes.

Once these rules are in place, the pace of innovation will be accelerated and success will be much more likely.

Encouraging Inovation

Standards Encourage Innovation and Growth

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