Gregory Maciag: The 80/20 Rule

Monday, 10 March 2014

The 80/20 Rule

Blogger Marco Mirandola has a fun way of pointing out that you don't need to use much of a standard to get benefits from it. He says that as a kid at the beach in Italy, he used to watch young Italian men managing to engage with female German tourists “with just few words of German, and frankly even poorly pronounced”

The 80/20 rule has a strong effect in the standards world. There are truly great benefits to be gained just by using the core elements of a widely used standard. And increasingly, using the core common vocabulary of the industry you're in is the only meaningful way to start participating. Standards

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My latest book presents the challenges members face when adopting industry standards as well as the opportunities that come as a result. It features my discussions with many people over many years and follows the foundation I set in my first book "The Business Information Revolution".

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