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Consider
this question:
Do you already have the ideal workforce
and are your employees already able to work
together so well that everyone is already doing
everything possible to grow your organization / business
over the next few years? |
If
so, you may have no need for a Business-Aligned® diversity
and inclusion strategy. |
If
some further improvement might enable even more successful
and sustained business growth, that gap is the business
case for your Business-Aligned® diversity
and inclusion strategy. |
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All organizations have measures of sustained business or
operating success - their key business growth drivers.
For example, CEOs of most for-profit organizations focus
on some combination of:
- Growing business or increasing sales, profitability,
market share, productivity, innovation, teamwork
- Improving safety, customer
or investor satisfaction, community relationships
- Reducing
operating expenses
The same idea applies to not-for-profit,
professional service, governmental, academic, and all other
organizations.
Your operating challenge is having
the right people working together effectively to understand
and meet your customers’ needs with world-class productivity
and innovation. In this era of rapidly-increasing societal
and workforce diversity, this holds true:
- For local,
national, and global organizations
- Whether your
customers are consumers or other organizations
With global
competition, your local market may
be other companies' new growth opportunity. This raises the bar on your need
for productivity, innovation, and creativity.
Finally,
your growth opportunity may be in
new local, regional, or international markets. Product / service design and
marketing calls for an ever increasing knowledge and experience
base about these new markets.
Solution
The best companies
have a business growth strategy that builds organizational
culture, productivity, creativity, and innovation. As
the figure illustrates, such organizations
apply a people and workplace lens to their business goals ,
actively determining these key business success factors:
- The required mix
of experience, skills, market knowledge, and perspectives
- The
high level of communication, teamwork, and customer focus
skills required of leaders and employees
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The figure illustrates the straight-line
connection between sustained business growth, workforce
diversity, workplace inclusion, and intercultural competence. It
shows diversity and inclusion as a core business strategy.
Key to success in creating such a workforce
and work place is a diversity and inclusion strategy
that is guided by and aligned with your key business
goals and that fully engages your CEO and senior
executive team.
We call
this Business-Aligned® diversity and
inclusion. MDB Group
has special expertise in developing or reinvigorating such
a strategy. To learn more about how we can apply Business-Aligned
D&I
strategic planning to help grow your organization:
A solid core business
strategy is an essential precursor to developing a Business-Aligned
diversity and inclusion plan. If you are looking to first
develop or refine your core business strategy, MDB Group
joins with and recommends our strategic partner, Profit
Solutions Associates, for such work. Please visit PSA's
website to learn more about developing core business strategies
(PSA's website will open in a new browser window).
We are
ready to work together with you to develop and implement
the Business-Aligned diversity and inclusion
strategy that will help ensure your organization’s
continued business success.
Sample results
See representative results achieved by MDB Group's principals at Business
Growth through Diversity and Inclusion.
Related links
Many aspects of diversity and inclusion help drive business growth. Click the
links below for further insight: |
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As you make progress and markets change, you
must adapt and expand your strategy to continue
moving forward. |
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A leading-edge diversity and inclusion strategy
helps sustain business growth. |
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Briefings and workshops define the linkage
between business and inclusion, and build engagement
with Business-Aligned strategies. |
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Vulnerability to lawsuits stemming from work
environment and people processes is an unnecessary
business risk. |
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Metrics and scorecards must support business
growth. |
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Addressing morale and retention allows your
workforce to better focus on growing your business. |
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A pristine reputation as a good corporate
citizen and as a preferred employer is an important
success contributor. |
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A strategic planning off-site
brings together the people, knowledge, and
perspectives needed to define a Business-Aligned®
diversity and inclusion strategy. |
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High productivity, innovation, and creativity
are essential to long-term business growth. |
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Next steps
Please call
us so that together we can start planning your future
growth.
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Your business success
is our most important objective.
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