Episode 39: Diversity, Inclusion … and Transformative Analytics - a podcast by Ask QueBIT

Episode 39: Diversity, Inclusion … and Transformative Analytics

No guest

This episode was partly inspired by an article in the November-December 2020 issue of the Harvard Business Review titled “Getting Serious about Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case”. The point of the article is that harnessing diversity to add value to your business is not just about hiring more women and black people to check a box, but about HOW willing you are to reshape your power structure to harness that diversity.

In QueBIT’s 20+ year history of delivering successful analytics-based projects to hundreds of companies we have lived through countless case studies that support the position taken in the article. Projects rarely succeed or fail just because of technology selection. The biggest factors that drive success pertain to leadership and culture: Do team members trust each other? Are they engaged, or just going through the motions? Do they feel supported by their executives, or set up for failure?

These are big questions that clearly cannot be addressed by a diversity initiative alone, but we hope that our specific example of how diversity and an inclusive culture can positively impact the end-result will provide useful food for thought. While there are no absolute answers to the daunting problems that businesses face, there are steps you can take to nudge the probabilities in a favorable direction.

Further episodes of Ask QueBIT About Analytics

Further podcasts by Ask QueBIT

Website of Ask QueBIT