Adopter-Centric Checklist Application

Standardization is the key to ensuring the interoperability, quality, safety, reliability, maintainability, effectiveness and efficiency of the equipment used by the Armed Forces (UK MoD SSE, 2005a). To realise these benefits, standards have to be effectively adopted and implemented within the MoD. However, what emerged in Chapter Six was that there are a number of factors and barriers critical to the adoption of standards within the MoD. Some factors like organization culture are applicable to the adoption of any standard or innovation within the MoD. However, other factors like standardization policies, standard characteristics and support from the standards community are unique to a particular standard.