Oracle Corporation Chief Executive Officer Safra Catz knows firsthand what diversity can bring to an organization. At Oracle OpenWorld this past October, she spoke about its benefits. “Diversity brings a different perspective and openness for companies,” she said. “Whether it’s women, or it’s minorities, or other unrepresented groups, getting the best out of people, when you have the whole population to choose from, is how you solve the hardest problems.”
In order to stay competitive, businesses need to be innovative, and diversity is a great catalyst for that innovation. Diversity of gender, ethnicity, and educational background within an organization results in internal and external benefits such as better problem solving, an increase of new ideas, and more effective communication with customers. However, in 2015, top technology companies released sobering statistics on the diversity of their employee pools. The attention to the lack of diversity in the tech industry has set up 2016 to be a year of action for companies large and small.
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