Best business practices for standards group

In highly competitive industries such as computing and communications, standards serve many purposes: They ensure equal access to primary technology, increase competition, help grow markets, and spark innovation. To guarantee fairness and accessibility, the originators of new standards often form trade associations to manage the technology and oversee the work of developing future technologies. The standard of good practices for association management companies (ANSI/IAAMC A100.1-2002) is the basis of a new accreditation program sponsored by the International Association of Association Management Companies. A new standard raises the bar for association management companies. After examining various methods, it determined that creating an American National Standard was the best approach because 1) ANSI procedures ensure that the most impartial processes are used to create the standard and that no small group of interested parties dominates the standard; and 2) given ANSI´s worldwide recognition, there is a higher likelihood that the standard is accepted as an independent measure of high quality.