79 Brinkburn - defining the value of ICT standards

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The Value of ICT Standards Consortia.

The key to evaluating standards consortia is understanding their directions and unearthing the relationships between consortia. But where to begin? Their self-professed identities all tend to emphasize the same basic themes: openness, vitality, effectiveness and influence. These are the same things that their members are interested in, and these members put up considerable amounts of money, time and personnel to achieve them. But how effective are ICT standards consortia in reality?

Defining Success
What the industry needs is a new way of interpreting the huge amounts of data that are available about standards consortia from both vendor and user perspectives.

For the Vendor:

Which consortia have successful track records?

Am I spending money wisely on those consortia?

Where should I spend my money, time, and personnel in the future?

Where is my competition spending their money

For the User:

How do I find consortia I want my vendors to use?

Will a consortium's standards be taken up in the marketplace?

What degree of influence will users have on these consortia?

What do consortia created specifications offer me?

After extensive development, we present The Brinkburn Analysis™ - the mechanism that shows just how well each ICT standards consortium does its job.