Read this article about Cisco, one of our finalists, in the category Best Achievement in Cultural Transformation & Sustainability to deliver a high performing Enterprise Excellence culture, selected by the independent judging panel, for the 2020 Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards program.
For many years, Cisco’s leadership has recognized that workforce diversity is critical to growing the business. However, the state of diversity in the organization—and how to improve it—was difficult to see and understand for most leaders. The company knew it had to enable inclusive workforce planning and hiring to drive action and effect change.
Cisco internally developed a digital solution suite to transform how we solve for diversity, inclusion and equity known as Diverse Talent Accelerators (DTA). Cisco designed and built DTA from the ground up to give our leaders business intelligence, geo-data, process automation, augmented content, and interactive guidance – at the point of decision making – to accelerate diverse top talent across the business.
We built a suite of four solutions targeted at different levels of management within the company as part of a comprehensive Inclusive Workforce Planning strategy:
- Smart Insights helps VPs and above reset diverse talent baseline share and aspirations, rethink inclusive hiring strategies, and respond to opportunities to capture a competitive share of diverse talent.
- Smart Tracker provides data to help business leaders understand their organization’s mix of diverse talent and where to recruit. With search capabilities including gender, job family, experience, and location, it enables focused and accelerated recruitment.
- Smart Start by Textio helps create job advertisements designed for maximum impact. It offers a simple, intuitive interface and a clear, graphic scoring system that helps recruiting teams neutralize bias and utilize vocabulary and phrasing that’s proven to resonate with a wide array of candidates.
- Smart Select simplifies the process of assembling and participating in diverse interviewer panels, with capabilities that enable managers to search for participants by gender, grade, region, role, skills and more.
The results speak for themselves: our initial pilot of DTA with our Meraki acquisition saw a 7% increase in the number of women employees (vs. 1.8% for Cisco overall) and increased ethnic diversity – up 10-12% in nearly every category that we report on (vs. 1-4% for Cisco overall). Our Advanced Services organization was also over baseline share of diversity in every category after piloting DTA.
As of FY19, DTA has now been rolled out to the business. 100% of our Executive Leadership Team have used these solutions to create detailed Action Plans to accelerate diversity, inclusion and collaboration throughout their organizations. We are the most diverse Cisco since 1998, and we are confident that our DTA solutions will help us continue this upward trajectory and further enhance our progress in finding, attracting, and accelerating diverse top talent to deliver on Cisco’s business objectives.
Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Industry Awards 2020
About the Awards
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards have been established to showcase globally the most outstanding organizational achievements through the application of Operational Excellence programs. Click here to view the Press Release.
The winners will be announced at the Awards Ceremony at The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Awards (BTOES) on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020, from 6.30pm in the Venetian Ballroom at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort.
The Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards are open to all organizations, both private and public sector, across the globe, which have implemented Operational Excellence programs to deliver outstanding business results.
The Awards will be held in conjunction with the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit, BTOES 2020 in the beautiful Venetian Ballroom on March 25, 2020 at the Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando™️. Click to access the agenda, view the current speakers, and watch the highlights video from last year.
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The issues in this article are just one of topic areas that are going to be discussed at the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence World Summit & Industry
BTOES is the industry’s biggest and best, senior-level, cross-industry gathering of Business Transformation & Operational Excellence industry leaders and senior executives.
It also hosts the Business Transformation & Operational Excellence Awards, which showcase globally the most outstanding organizational achievements through the application of Operational Excellence programs.
The summits hosts a number of private forums for C-Level & Global corporate-level leaders as well as business unit heads.
With over 150 speakers, over 100 sessions, 12 Keynotes, 9 Track Themes, 5 parallel tracks, 60+ track sessions, 50 roundtable discussions, 20 Interactive Workshops, 6 Thought Leader Panels, 5 Leaders Boardrooms, 5 co-located events, the Industry Awards Program, Site Visits, 20+ hours of social networking including 2 gala cocktail parties, dinners, numerous group activities, this is the ultimate event to benchmark, network and drive Operational Excellence to the next level.
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There is a strong focus on Cultural Transformation, Customer Delight, Sustaining an Operational Excellence program, Need for end-to-end Business Transformation, Keeping up with new technologies/impact of digitalization and Leadership Buy-in & Understanding. We dedicated two tracks to advanced technologies, such as AI, Machine Learning, RPA, Predictive Analytics, Blockchain, Cloud infrastructure etc.
The agenda is designed to encourage active meaningful conversations though all day enhanced networking and interaction opportunities, including
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All-day Refreshment & Themed Breaks
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1¼ Hour Hot Breakfast Networking Sessions
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1½ Hour Hot Plated Networking Lunches with Topic & Industry Sector focussed tables
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1½ Hour Roundtable Sessions by Topic & Industry Sector.
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Keynote & Themes Panel Sessions
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Hosted Welcome Receptions from 5.30pm
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Expanded more lavish Awards Program
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Newly launched Night Summit for attendees to meet after dinner
For more information or to discuss the summit in more detail please schedule a call below,