I like to collect figures relating to the
benefits of standards. Sometimes these figures are like tiny case studies.
Other times, they just make you go “wow”.
Hudson Hollister of the Data Transparency Coalition gives an example of how the lack of standard identifiers can waste time, effort, and enormous amounts of money. If federal loan assessors had been able to match SEC reports on solar panels start-up Solyndra, it's unlikely the company would have got its $527m in federal loan guarantees – before filing for bankruptcy just two years later. If only complex organizations knew what they know.
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