Sustainability Magazine November 2021 | Page 169

TM FORUM
“ We have also looked at what is the easiest way to implement this into the way we measure across our organisation and we ' ve come to the conclusion that over time it will be best incorporated into our employee engagement surveys .”
Gilder said the advantage of using the TM Forum is they are independent so the employees may feel more comfortable divulging personal information . “ The TM Forum can help us to obtain the data we need for the IDS because the employee may have more psychological safety by providing that data to a non-employer so there are a lot of benefits .”
She pointed out the TM Forum also helps Colt to build the IT stack , help build

“ It is important we start treating D & I like we do the rest of our businesses by using benchmarks and metrics and measuring what truly matters ”

KERI GILDER CEO ,
COLT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
applications , program interfaces , and APIs . “ They help me think differently and more innovatively about how I ' m approaching the technical side of my business .
“ The TM Forum has helped us to understand how we can approach our business using the same type of methodology , standards , a baseline that is going across the industry that will enable collaboration , and drive this to a point where it is a part of our development stack , but it ' s the development stack of our people . It ' s not the development stack of our technology .” sustainabilitymag . com 169