Best Practices
What is a Best Practice?
According to Wikipedia a best practice is a method or technique that has been generally accepted as superior to any alternatives because it produces results that are superior to those achieved by other means or because it has become a standard way of doing things, e.g., a standard way of complying with legal or ethical requirements.
Best practices are used to maintain quality as an alternative to mandatory legislated standards and can be based on self-assessment or benchmarking. Best practice is a feature of accredited management standards such as ISO 9000 and ISO 14001.
You can develop your own best practices, or you may adopt a best practice developed by others. Developing a best practice can be simply taking the time to research what you are planning to do and finding the best way to go about getting it done. Establishing your own best practices for your own area of expertise or business is an important part of making everything work smoothly and efficiently. Best practices can keep evolving as new and better solutions are found, or evolve from better awareness, new technology, or simply different ways of looking at things.
The USIBD’s mission supports the development and sharing of best practices.
What is the purpose of a Best Practice?
“Best practices” is simply what it says, the best practice. Similar projects tend to have similar aims and problems. Over time, answers have been found for many of those problems. Best practices try to keep people from continually reinventing the wheel. Sometimes it may take a little research to determine what the best practices are for an endeavor, but the betterment of the end result is almost always worth the research time spent. It is just common sense to use best practices in whatever you are trying to accomplish.
USIBD Best Practices