Out of the strong comes forth sweetness

 Out of the strong comes forth sweetness. 

I remember with great affection the years of a large county in UK now all but gone. It had a council which centrally handled a very large turnover of office business documents, such as invoices and orders.  This gave that council a good economy of scale, as far as UK county councils go. It was disbanded in the mid 1990s, but not before it had gained a great deal of significant knowledge of these kinds of documents, and of related documents such as receipt advices, debit notes, credit notes, remittance advices, and statements of received and outstanding payments. From this knowledge, several subsequent office staff, in one of its main successor councils, were thus able to document this knowledge, under the auspices of central government consultants. This documentation became the sweetness from out of the strong. It was documented knowledge, together with the knowledge of some of these staff directly, which was taken in two directions. Firstly, it went out into standards work on what would later become an ISO standard for invoices, orders, and almost all major related business documents, worldwide. Secondly, it went out into the directives and similar standards work of the EU, becoming part of the laws of EU member states. This had knock-on consequences in other countries too, outside of the EU, and indeed in UK which later left the EU just as these directives were being made law. From tiny acorns, great oak trees grow.