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Diversity to widen perspectives

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Supporting diversity at the team scale and encouraging the opening to new ideas and opinions with a wide range of horizons, Fujitsu Luxembourg supports innovating approaches, creating value at the service of clients.

For Fujitsu, supporting diversity enables to exceed the limits of one's preconceived ideas. "Diversity is a key element in any transformation and innovation approach", precises Daniel Meyer. The Resource Allocation & Talent Manager from Fujitsu Luxembourg is well positioned to talk about diversity. With a Luxembourgish nationality, he grew in Norway and studied in France. His background brought him as well to live in England and in Germany before coming to Luxembourg. He can talk during hours about the wealth of diversity. "Exposing oneself to other cultures, divergent opinions is interesting to broaden one's perspectives, modify one's anchored convictions and challenge the statu quo, he explains. Diversity, in this way, leads to more openness, generates new ideas, which would have remained inaccessible.

Leaning on various experiences 

Fujitsu Luxembourg values actively this plurality through teams. "One of the strengths of Fujitsu lies in its ability to cover all the needs of organisations, from the solution definition at a strategic level to its implementation", continues the Talent Manager. Among our teams, we gather a broad range of skills, personalities with various experiences but not only. Fujitsu Luxembourg, among its 230 employees includes 32 different nationalities. All of them talk around fifty languages. 

Free oneself from one's own manacles 

"This diversity contributes to untie some manacles, limits we put ourselves and find solutions more easily, carries on Daniel Meyer. If, within a team, everyone thinks in the same way, it turns out to be more difficult to overcome some difficulties. Integrate various points of view and different cultures enables innovation and creates more value." This is verified in the workshops Fujitsu holds with clients. Around a specific issue, they gather several people from different domains and invite them to exchange on possibilities to advance and innovate. "In this context, it is essential to think broad. Diversity contributes undoubtedly to it. What seems impossible for one is not especially impossible to others with different experiences or technical skills", explains Daniel Meyer. 

Benevolence as a communication lever

One of the challenges, in this perspective, is to ensure a good communication between all the stakeholders. From one culture to another, codes and subtilities in communication can vary. "If no attention is paid on it, a lack of appreciation of these cultural differences can lead to communication issues." In the same way, it is essential to overcome prejudice and unconscious bias that we all build. 

A state of mind rather than a skill 

To support diversity, Fujitsu integrates these aspects at the heart of its recruitment policy. The company, for instance, considers candidates attitude is as important as technical skills. "The latter, even if they are important, can be learned. Making a person's state of mind evolve is less easy, comments Daniel Meyer. We are concerned to integrate open-minded people. When we talk about diversity, it is not only statistics, but the emotional and intellectual wealth it bring us.  In this perspective, human is at the centre and we accept each other as we are." 

Find the original article on IT Nation in French.