In our most recent state of the industry survey, we asked end users about their familiarity with various standards and standards development organizations.
The conclusion? Consensus standards development processes (ANSI, ISO) continue to be important to organizations and fairly well-understood, with a significant drop off in understanding for other organizations. XML, .NET and web service based (SOAP) standards are best understood by end users, pointing to the emerging importance of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and interoperability (as reflected in AIIM's iECM project) as a vehicle to unify business processes.
Not in the official results, though, was a question about familiarity with a little known standard called XP9. The reason this is a little know standard is because I made it up to check on the BS quotient (or maybe it's just survey weariness) of our survey participants.
The good news -- hardly anyone fell for my trap. 92.8% indicated they had never heard of this standard, a very different recognition result than was triggered for all of our real standards. Among those who indicate they are "very familiar with the XP9 standard" --
1.4% of IT managers and executives...
1.5% of RM and DM practitioners....
and it will come as now surprise to those of the Dilbert school who question management...
4.3% of line of business executives and senior executives
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