International Building Code Chapter 30: Elevators and Conveying Systems
2024/2025/2026 ICC CODE DEVELOPMENT SCHEDULE
Today at 16:00 UTC update our understanding of construction spend in educational settlements every month and find that our industry ranks near the top of United States annual spend reported by the Census Bureau — about $100 billion annually — greater than the gross domestic product of more than half the world’s 200-0dd nations. Economic activity at that level, and in this industry, has a few codes, standards, and guidelines related to the financing of public buildings. They vary widely — by country, region, and even at the local level.
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IEEE P2418.7 Standard for the Use of Blockchain in Supply Chain Finance
In traditional supply chain finance implementations, the compliance check is often done manually by financial institutions to compare the different paper-based trade finance documents. In such scenarios, high labor costs need to be spent while high fraud risks still exist, and it’s hard for small and medium enterprises to be covered. Blockchain technology can play a vital role in solving many SCF-related problems
Blockchain technology, as a basic infrastructure for exchanging value and information over the Internet, has been tried to create new solutions for SCF, aiming to reduce the complexity and make data sharing more transparent, accurate, efficient and secure, which could facilitate the businesses to come together in partnership, to fulfill small and medium enterprises financial demand and to speed up the funding flows throughout the supply chain.
Different Blockchain-driven SCF implementations may lead to fragmentation and it’s hard to be expanded in the future. Standardization of blockchain use in SCF will define a general framework, provide a base common understanding enabling innovation in supply chain finance and promote industry development
Public consultation closes July 23rd.
The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) issued a draft report — and a commenting opportunity the repport — that details a high-level technical overview of blockchain technology, its architecture, and how it works as the foundation of modern cryptocurrencies. NIST requested feedback from the public and private sectors, national and international, for the final publication. The document, Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8202: Blockchain Technology Overview, provided an in-depth look at the technologies that compromise blockchain systems and breaks down how blockchains can best be utilized, and how blockchain technology can be an asset to a business and its products.
“We want to help people understand how blockchains work so that they can appropriately and usefully apply them to technology problems,” said Dylan Yaga, a NIST computer scientist and co-author of the report. “It’s an introduction to the things you should understand and think about if you want to use blockchain.”
The report appears to have integrated public comment and now a landing page for NIST work in this area — as well as contact information for project leaders — is linked below
NIST Report on Blockchain Technology Aims to Go Beyond the Hype
Blockchain Technology Overview
Blockchain technology is a standing item on our Blockchain and Finance colloquia; open to everyone. Keep in mind that blockchain is a nascent (or “pre-adoption”) technology.
Issue: [18-25]
Category: Finance, Academics, Administration & Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Jack Janveja, Richard Robben
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“The best men are molded out of faults”
— William Shakespeare
The American National Standards Institute is the Global Secretariat for ISO Technical Committee 260 (ISO/TC 260); organized to develop policy templates for standardization solutions that improve management of the workforce in any nation; in any sector or industry. These human resource management standards offer broad, evidence-based guidance to individuals with people management responsibilities, whether formally or informally assigned, in organizations for the benefit of both internal and external stakeholders.
Gleaned from inputs from human resource experts globally, these products are designed to provide guidance on key HR functions in support of its workforce and its management, and sustainable organizational performance. TC/260 is focused on the following tasks:
• Ensuring wide market relevance of its HRM standards.
• Facilitating international business.
• Providing guidance on professional standards of practice.
• Facilitating measurement, comparability and consistency of HR practice with the aim of transparent benchmarking.
• Improving internal processes.
• Enabling organizations to better achieve optimal organizational outcomes with improved management of human capital
The business plan is linked below:
STRATEGIC BUSINESS PLAN ISO/TC 260: Human Resource Management 2018/19 (3rd edition)
The original University of Michigan user-interest advocacy enterprise was participating member in this project* but that engagement was interrupted suddenly in October 2016 (See ABOUT). We have since picked up where we left off with the same people collaborating with Standards Michigan. ANSI remains the global Secretariat.
We maintain this project on the standing agenda of both our Global and our Human Resource colloquia. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
“I am sorry that my job is getting in the way of your learning. I hope that the time you gain can be productively used in employment so that you can pay for your college education”
Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job – McSweeney’s https://t.co/TDhIsAkXau
— Bryan Dewsbury (@BMDewsbury) March 28, 2024
Issues: [14-99] and [15-52]
Category: Administration & Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Christine Fischer, Lee S. Webster, Richard Robben
ANSI Contacts: Michelle Deane (mdeane@ansi.org)
US TAG Contacts: Lorelei Carobolante, Jim Lewis
*We left off just as the ISO/TS 30411:2018, Human resource management-Quality of hire metric (QoH) standard was rolling out. The QoH was, and still is a performance metric for talent acquisition teams, critical for determining the effectiveness of the recruitment process and has a consequential impact on an organization’s performance. The QoH structure is intended to be scalable to the needs of any organization regardless of size, industry or sector and is relevant to people with an interest in workforce planning, organizational design and development, talent management succession planning, recruitment, and human capital reporting. Read more about ISO/TS 30411:2018 on ISO’s news site, and access it on the ANSI Web Store.
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ISO Guidelines Help Measure Employees’ Impact on Company Performance
Organizational charts are often considered internal documents, and the specific format can vary widely based on organizational culture, preferences, and specific needs. Organizations may develop their own standards based on industry best practices, legal requirements, and internal considerations. Depending on the industry, there may be associations that provide guidelines tailored to that particular sector. The HR sector has a few:
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): SHRM provides resources and best practices for human resource professionals, including guidance on organizational structure and charts.
Project Management Institute (PMI): PMI may offer insights into organizational structures, especially in the context of project management.
International Organization for Standardization (ISO): ISO develops international standards for various aspects, including some related to organizational structures. However, these standards are not specific templates for organizational charts.
There are generally accepted principles and standards for constructing organizational charts, but the specific format and details can vary depending on the organization’s size, structure, and industry. Here are some common guidelines for creating organizational charts:
Top-Down Hierarchy: The chart typically follows a top-down hierarchy, with the highest-ranking positions at the top and lower-ranking positions below.
Clear Reporting Lines: Clearly define reporting lines to represent the chain of command and authority within the organization.
Position Titles and Names: Include position titles and, if space allows, the names of individuals holding those positions.
Consistency: Maintain consistency in the layout, shapes, and formatting of boxes and lines throughout the chart.
Departments and Divisions: Use different colors, shading, or grouping to represent different departments or divisions within the organization.
Clarity and Simplicity: Keep the chart clear and simple to understand. Avoid unnecessary complexity that might confuse viewers.
Use of Lines: Connect positions with straight or diagonal lines to represent reporting relationships. Dotted lines are sometimes used for indirect or dotted-line reporting.
Position of Support Staff: Support staff (such as human resources, IT, etc.) may be placed in a separate section or integrated within the chart, depending on the organization’s preference.
Employee Information: Depending on the sensitivity of the information and organizational culture, include only essential information about employees (names, titles) or provide more details like photos and contact information.
Updates: Regularly update the organizational chart to reflect any changes in personnel, structure, or reporting relationships.
It’s important to note that these are general guidelines, and the specific requirements for an organizational chart can vary widely based on the organization’s needs and preferences. Some organizations may prefer a more detailed chart, while others may opt for a simpler representation.
A fully dimensioned exploration of human resource standards — and approaches to lowering cost — cannot be without an understanding of present practice, and prevailing opinion about present practice.
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Pennsylvania State University — also known as Penn State — is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses that are spread throughout Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania and became the country’s only land-grant institution eight years later in 1863.
Though the university is not a member of the Ivy League, Penn State is a major research university and is sometimes referred to as one of the so-called “Public Ivies”, a publicly-funded research institution that provides a comparable quality of education to Ivy League institutions. In addition to its land-grant designation, Penn State also participates in the sea-grant, sun-grant, and space-grant; one of only four institutions (alongside Cornell, Oregon State, and Hawai’I at Mānoa) to do so.
Penn State is a “state-related” university and forms part of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Although the university receives funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is connected to the state via its board of trustees, it is entirely independent and does not fall under the control of the state.
Organimi: Penn State University’s Organizational Structure
Human Resources, perhaps aptly, is a large domain, likely the largest and, for the most part, outside our wheelhouse. As we continue our journey explore ways to make the physical surroundings of educational settlements of all sizes safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer lasting. it is fitting that we understand the pathways the flow of money takes. Feel free to join us during our office hours any day to “take a poke at the HR dragon”
The Pennsylvania State University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, here is a list of campuses in the Penn State system:
New update alert! The 2022 update to the Trademark Assignment Dataset is now available online. Find 1.29 million trademark assignments, involving 2.28 million unique trademark properties issued by the USPTO between March 1952 and January 2023: https://t.co/njrDAbSpwB pic.twitter.com/GkAXrHoQ9T
— USPTO (@uspto) July 13, 2023
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