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As far back as 1775, Condorcet had dreamed of a universal standard that would not be based on any national vanity. 245 years later, looking at how organizations measure the performance of their IAM practice (just to mention this particular field), I make a similar dream but at a much smaller scale: organizations could cease to continuously reinvent the wheel and start reusing what is just there: research. The more organizations will reuse it, the more feedback research will obtain. The more feedback research obtain, the more research will progress.
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