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The diversity dividend: How inclusive businesses gain competitive advantage

IBM Big Data Hub

Companies with diverse workforces are better positioned to deliver truly customer-centric experiences to all consumers. Companies that prioritize a deep understanding of the needs and preferences of culturally diverse global consumers gain a competitive edge. How can tech companies effectively embrace diversity?

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Diversity and inclusion: 7 best practices for changing your culture

CIO Business Intelligence

Diversity and inclusion (D&I) have become necessary missions for most businesses. Research has long shown that diverse teams are more productive , more engaged, and the companies that create them are more profitable. Maybe you hired a diverse team for entry-level positions. It’s with employee retention. “In

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#ClouderaLife Allyship April Q&A with Antoine Burrell

Cloudera

As part of this goal, we caught up with Antoine Burrell, a senior engineering manager here at Cloudera and leader of our Cloudera Black Employee Network (CBEN+) Employee Resource Group, and explored what it means for him to be an ally. How does Cloudera support allyship across the company?

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7 ways diversity and inclusion help teams perform better

CIO Business Intelligence

Diversity, equity, and inclusion have become important social issues. In the wake of the George Floyd and Breonna Taylor murders of 2020, companies made massive, highly publicized efforts to correct for systemic bias and improve the mix of race, gender, and lived experiences in the workplace. It is true in every industry.

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Cisco-led consortium to spread AI expertise in the workforce

CIO Business Intelligence

Cisco and eight other companies today announced they would form the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, as a venue to share generative AI knowledge and expertise in the workforce, and to help workers gain skills relevant to the newly AI-centric jobs of tomorrow. We need to have diverse people around the table, which starts with skilling.”

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IT leaders turn to HBCUs for future IT talent

CIO Business Intelligence

They also believed they needed to take more responsibility for increasing the diversity of workers in their IT ranks. We want students to be aware of us as an employer, and we want to have a diverse workforce,” says NCDIT HR DirectorJoey Harrison. Such figures, Harrison and others say, are why they’re building connections with HBCUs.

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Women still underrepresented in top tech roles

CIO Business Intelligence

While a leadership gap is apparent across most industries, it’s far wider among tech companies. For instance, when May Govender, group CIO of pan-African financial services group Old Mutual, first started moving up the corporate ladder, she was one of very few women doing so.