Best Practice Guides for Businesses

Industry Standards Solution Sheet

Nimonik’s Industry Standards Management Solution helps companies worldwide access, track, and manage standards with real-time updates, redline comparisons, and compliance tools for seamless regulatory adherence.

Industry Standards Buyer’s Guide

This guide outlines some considerations you may want to take when buying engineering industry standards from standards development organizations or resellers such as Nimonik.

Regulatory Compliance Software One-Pager

Review the core features of Nimonik’s regulatory compliance management platform — summarized on one page to easily share with other team members.

Internal Audit Best Practices for Environment, Safety, Risk, and Quality

This white paper explores the design and operational elements of an effective internal HSEQ audit program. The paper addresses the value that an Operations Excellence Management System framework, supportive culture, and operational discipline provide.

ISO 37301 Best Practices

This white paper covers the basics of this new standard for Compliance Management Systems. It is a companion to our recent webinar on the topic, you can find the recording and slides here.

Best Practice Guides for SDOs

Subscription Pricing Best Practices for SDOs and NSBs

The core of this document delves into strategies for refining pricing models to better align with customer needs, ultimately aiming to increase revenue and broaden the adoption of critical standards. You will find key insights, market observations, and peer comparisons to support your efforts in reviewing and optimizing pricing models. 

Listen to the Music Industry: Lessons for Standards Publishers

This white paper delves into the transformative journey of the music industry and draws parallels to the challenges and opportunities faced by standards publishers. Amidst a shifting landscape marked by digital piracy and evolving consumer behavior, the music industry successfully transitioned from physical sales to digital streaming, substantially increasing revenue.

Maximizing SDO Revenue: Moving From Retail to Subscription

A high-level strategic blueprint for SDOs that want to transition from a single-document retail model to a highly profitable subscription model. The core shift is moving from selling a physical “thing” (the PDF) to selling “access” and “seats.” Designed to monetize the true breadth of use within an organization, this significantly increases Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) and establishes a much more stable revenue stream.

A New Era of Piracy

Today, we are entering a new age of “piracy” with powerful AI tools that have sucked up almost all human written and visual creations, including art, technical documents, movies, and more. A recent research paper by Stanford scientists highlights two problems for SDOs. As a result, copyright holders need to focus on staying ahead of the curve and deploying a playbook that will mitigate the negative impacts of AI and focus on the potential positive outcomes.