Diversity & Inclusion Drives Technology Innovation
Published: 10/15/2018
Last Updated: 10/15/2018

- In Diversity - the key to unlocking innovation, the professional service company KPMG cited a recent North Carolina State University study showing that companies who embrace diversity from multiple angles (e.g., geographical, educational, gender, etc.) are more successful when it comes to innovation.
- The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) reports that in a study of 101 public, private, and nonprofit organizations, that those with three or more women on their executive boards outperformed other companies on all the study’s performance measures.
- FORTUNE published in its 2017 Why Diversity and Innovation Play a Role in Becoming a Great Tech Company that companies where fewer employees report fair treatment in regard to race or gender tend to score lower on measures of innovation.
- The Decoding Diversity report by Dalberg Advisors with the Intel Global Diversity & Inclusion Group analyzed the impact of improving diversity in the technology sector, based on diversity data collected from nearly 170 companies. The report found faster innovation correlates with diversity: employees at diverse firms were 60% more likely than their peers at non-diverse firms to see their ideas developed or prototyped, and 75% more likely to see their innovations implemented or deployed; research data also suggests that highly-diverse firms with a growth strategy see more than twice the productivity compared to firms that are less diverse.
Speaking Out for a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace
How Can You Take Action?
- Implement and publish company-specific goals to recruit, retain, and advance diverse technology talent, and operationalize concrete measures to create and sustain an inclusive culture
- Annually publish data and progress metrics on the diversity of our technology workforce across functional areas and seniority levels
- Invest in partnerships to build a diverse pipeline of technology talent to increase our ability to recognize, develop, and support talent from all backgrounds
Michael Greene is VP & General Manager, Intel System Technologies and Optimization Division. He leads a worldwide organization responsible for a broad range of development, enabling, and architecture analysis efforts to accelerate development velocity and time to market for Intel platforms. He joined Intel in 1990, after graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and managing several new product developments, research efforts, and engineering groups. Michael has served as Intel’s initiative owner for power efficiency, pre-silicon software development, and has driven new technology benchmarking throughout his career. Follow Michael on Twitter.
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1 Decoding Diversity, 2016, Dalberg Global Development Advisors with the Intel Global Diversity & Inclusion Group
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