IT Essentials: It's time to admit that DEI has failed

Until we acknowledge why, nothing changes.

Penny Horwood
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IT Essentials: It's time to admit that DEI has failed

Why has the DEI backlash become so entrenched? How did we get here? And how can we dig ourselves out?

In 2020, a powerful and terrible confluence of events - the pandemic, the wildly accelerated pace of digitisation and above all the murder of George Floyd in America by a police officer, visible in...

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