JoAnne Yates & Craig Murphy | The Importance of Standards
Bio | JoAnne Yates is the Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, Emerita, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Control through Communication: The Rise of System in American Management and Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century.
Craig N. Murphy is the Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College. He is the author of The United Nations Development Programme: A Better Way? and International Organization and Industrial Change: Global Governance since 1850.
Summary | Standards make the world. Techno-cooperation is one of the great forces for civilizational progress, and the process of designing, setting, and implementing technical standards is a powerful and creative act. The story of global standards setting has been largely overlooked and underrated. Luckily, JoAnne Yates and Craig Murphy have written a book on this important history, Engineering Rules, and are kickstarting a better conversation about the topic.
Notes from the Discussion:
International Organization for Standardization
Patent Buy-Outs by Michael Kremer
Why Standardization Efforts Fail by Carl Cargill
Highlights:
Why are standards so underrated?
— science better (@scibetter) August 24, 2021
It might be a language issue. More likely it's because standardization has been unfairly tagged as a boring process. pic.twitter.com/GhpxzedxH2
Disruptive standards vs. traditional consensus building. pic.twitter.com/hkp7A6LMix
— science better (@scibetter) August 24, 2021
The recent trend away from globalized standards is bad.
— science better (@scibetter) August 24, 2021
"What has made standards work so well is that it's not a governmental thing. It's not the government, it's the engineers who are the keys here." pic.twitter.com/yBFhlVTaMq