As organizations develop their capability to collect people data, analyse and apply them to support strategy development and strategic workforce planning, the importance of standards and standardization grows. Organizations want to know that their data is of a certain quality, that they are measuring areas that are critical to the business and that they can use this to compare with business units anywhere in the world, including their competitors. This session introduces you to the world of international HRM and HCM standards, in particular a new standard of human capital reporting, a standard that is likely to have far reaching impact on the future of HR.