The Open Group accomplishes its mission by leading collaboration among customers, system and software vendors, and other consortia and standards groups to expedite timely vendor responses to customers' current and future requirements by:

• Consolidating and prioritizing these requirements. The Open Group Customer Council, a combination of OSF and X/Open user groups, provides the open systems industry with a unified customer voice for open systems requirements current and future. System vendors and independent software vendors benefit from the clear direction, and massive buying power, of the Customer Council members.
• Conducting innovative research and advanced development. The Open Group Research Institute collaborates with industry, academia, and government agencies to deliver innovation and economy. Innovation by providing solutions to difficult system technology requirements, and economy by providing a vehicle for shared investment in research. The bottom line is faster time-to-market for emerging open systems technology.
• Managing the cost-effective development and accelerating the consistent multi-vendor deployment of technology in response to customer requirements.
• Adopting, adapting, integrating, and encouraging the use of industry standard specifications. The Open Group's integration and publication of industry-approved open systems specifications provides an essential set of blueprints for building open information systems and integrating new technology as it becomes available.
• Licensing and promoting its brand which designates products that conform to open systems standards. The brand enables vendors to guarantee their products' conformance to international open systems standards. For customers, the brand provides a powerful tool for the procurement of open systems technology.
• Promoting the benefits of open systems to customers, vendors, and the public.

The mission of The Open Group is to make multi-vendor open systems the preferred customer choice for the delivery of the right in formation to the right person at the right time. The Open Group's goals include

• Enabling a rapid vendor response to customer requirements for open systems
• Innovative technology research
• Accelerated consensus-building around standards and technology
• Consensus among open systems vendors
• Promoting a consistent open systems message