TM FORUM
Sleight commented on the partnership with Colt and the strong relationship with Gilder saying : “ TM Forum and Colt are equally as passionate , but we bring together different experiences . It ' s diversity of thought , diversity of experience , diversity of perspective .”
D & I in practice at Colt Technology Services Gilder pointed out that having a base of 850 members at TM Forum is critical for understanding best practice and understanding the talent base within the technology and telco sector .
“ For me , I can bring the real world example of how this actually is going to get implemented within an organisation . At Colt we ' ve been able to do this over the last couple of years . We have developed five different employee resource groups , and that ' s been a start within Colt because now we ' ve moved beyond gender . We ' re now looking at disability , ethnicity , race and LGBQT . We ' ve moved out into the grander world of diversity and we ' re starting to develop the HR data in order to provide what ' s required to have a holistic view .”
Gilder pointed out the first move is collating the data . “ The first challenge is getting the data and making sure that what you ' re looking at provides the insights that are inclusive of the entire Colt community .
“ Although we have it , when it comes to gender it has to be self-projected and reported for practically every other diverse metric . As we ' ve started to develop the metric , I ' ve been working with my HR organisation and our employee resource groups to understand how we can get people comfortable with providing the data so that we can have a realistic metric that comes out of the scoring .
168 November 2021