{"id":32563,"date":"2016-01-25T14:51:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T13:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=32563"},"modified":"2016-01-26T03:24:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T02:24:22","slug":"32563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/32563\/","title":{"rendered":"Including Women and Minorities is Good Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research shows diversity is good for business \u2013 take your pick from Harvard Business Review<\/em>, Scientific American<\/em>,McKinsey & Company and many more. Yet fundamental change in any industry can take time.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve all seen the statistics. Tech investment in women\u00a0and minorities is lacking, and while Silicon Valley is building a bubble-like paddock for unicorns, outside-the-commercial-box ideas with real social impact can be drowned out by all the eyeballs lighting up with dollar signs and ringing out \u2018cha-ching\u2019.<\/p>\n

Discussion on diversity in industries was rampant throughout 2015, prompting the establishment of committees and policies, and the promotion of diversity leaders. Some of these efforts merely pay lip service to the cause, but some champions of diversity are taking definitive action.<\/p>\n

The change that\u2019s on the horizon is in no small part led by these inspiring individuals. Some are investors cognisant of the homogenous face of the tech industry and actively working to augment it. Others are attempting to change the game completely with new models of investment, while others are driving the diversity debate in the right direction.<\/p>\n

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Research shows diversity is good for business \u2013 take your pick from Harvard Business Review, Scientific American,McKinsey & Company and many more. Yet fundamental change in any industry can take time. We\u2019ve all seen the statistics. Tech investment in women\u00a0and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t