Diversity & Inclusion
Our members determine which themes we act on. We work on organizations that are open to talent and where every employee, regardless of personal characteristics or background, feels valuable and welcome.
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People make organizations. People have different backgrounds, talents and motivations. In order to be able to supply the right products and services to a broad group of customers in rapidly developing, often global markets, it is important to develop and implement those products and services with a diverse group of employees. They can help you make the right choices and prevent blunders. In addition, in a labor market with great scarcity, it is even more important to appeal to the widest possible group of potential employees and to take good care of the people who already work for you. It is therefore necessary to pay attention to the diversity of your workforce and to pay attention to an open culture within the organization, so that everyone can feel welcome.
For this we do the following:
1. Share knowledge about the bias-free recruitment and selection process for employees. What knowledge, insights and experiences are there to remove prejudices from this process, so that you create the space to address and interest broader groups in your vacancy and attract the most suitable person to fill that vacancy. In doing so, we involve knowledge from science, the market and the experiences of other members.
2. Share experiences about the elements that are important to develop an inclusive culture in the workplace. How do you approach that, what works and when can it go completely off the rails? What do we actually know about each other and each other's backgrounds, passions and motives? How do we bring it up and take each other into account. How to become and remain an inclusive leader?
More diversity in terms of gender, age, background, but also, for example, how people think and learn (neurodiversity) is desperately needed. Those differences determine the path someone has traveled to get where they are now and that generally says something about the way someone views and deals with problems. In this way we make our organizations and companies richer, more effective. That is why, on behalf of CIO Platform Nederland, I am committed to more diversity, inclusion and equity in the workplace – also in our field.
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November 27, 2017
Sustainable employability asks for empowerment of IT employees
Digitalization calls upon the empowerment of IT employees, like flexibility, learning ability and readiness to develop. In this way they keep connected with their own and future IT-skills and the development within the organization.
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October 1, 2017
Successful first edition of the Data Science Meetup at ANWB
ANWB, PostNL and LUMC organized a joint Data Science Meetup on the 28th of September at ANWB in The Hague. A broad topic with a lot of information and experience to share and talk about.
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June 16, 2017
Learning as a success factor
How to keep up our employees in this age of rapid IT-developments and digitalization? How to guarantee employability? What to expect from our employees and what is the employers’ responsibility? This theme session ‘The Learning Organization’ was initiated by CC Labour Market & Education to explore all kind of such issues.
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March 6, 2017
CodePact: all children digital savvy
Partners and friends of CodePact are stepping up to give as many children and young adults as possible the needed digital skills.
Diversity & Inclusion events
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CEG HR Management | Debugging the IT Recruitment Code | Essent | 's-Hertogenbosch 's-HertogenboschIn this Knowledge Group (CEG), HR advisors, HR business partners, recruiters, and Talent Development leads participate. The members exchange knowledge and experiences on topics such as: How to attract and retain IT talent? Training and retraining (IT) colleagues, further development of digital skills, online learning, and agile working.
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Theme session Woonstad Rotterdam: 'Together we can do it, how can Diversity & Inclusion work for you?' | Rotterdam RotterdamA live meeting for and by CIOs and (upcoming) IT executives. The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen and help each other on the theme Diversity & Inclusion. Also CIO Office and HR are very welcome!
A program organised by our CIO Committee Diversity & Inclusion, and FILN, Female IT Leaders Network of CIO Platform Nederland, a close network of female IT executives. This session is for he/she/them!25 Sep