Diversity and innovation: the driving forces behind South Summit Brazil

The importance of diversity

Diversity is a crucial component of innovation as it brings together a variety of perspectives, experiences and ideas that can help companies thrive. By embracing diversity, it is possible to explore new markets, create innovative products and services and form stronger and more resilient teams. At South Summit Brazil, we saw that diversity is not just a buzzword, but a driving force behind business success.
 

The challenge of hiring and training professionals with different backgrounds requires the deconstruction of some paradigms and, at the same time, thinking about the effectiveness of the technologies and terminologies to be used, which must be adequate and accessible, as well as aligned with the business strategy .

3 tips to promote diversity in companies

1. Start the process by embracing diversity in the organization's culture, establish a diversity and inclusion committee capable of training and teaching staff, reviewing training and recruitment processes, monitoring results.
2. Engage leadership, including C-Levels, in a committed way.
3. Include diversity in the value chain of your business strategy.

Within this, the panel “Acquisition and Training of Professionals according to Diversity” brought the importance of different themes in the context of diversity, from gender, skin color and even age.

Our CEO, Fabiele Nunes, was invited by the South Summit team as a panel speaker, considering that the Startup Mundi Game is a platform that democratizes the innovation mindset and entrepreneurial education in teams from different segments or departments, celebrating diversity through empowering employees of all origins, genders and ages towards their goals.

A great practical example of how we work is the case of Accenture , which used Startup Mundi's game based learning methodology with the aim of deepening knowledge about trends and best practices in its continuing corporate education program:

"The main objective of the initiative is to raise the creative skills of the company's leaders so that they can not only incorporate the culture of innovation, but also be replicators at all points of contact with external and internal audiences", explains the senior manager of innovation and technology from Accenture, Daniel Miranda.

How innovation is driving business growth

Innovation is one of the main drivers of business growth anywhere on the planet. By bringing together disruptive solutions, entrepreneurs, investors and industry experts from diverse sectors, we are creating a space where innovative ideas can flourish. From fintech and e-commerce to healthcare and education, we are seeing new startups emerge, transforming industries and driving economic growth.

The future of entrepreneurship

South Summit Brazil is leading the way in promoting diversity and innovation as the driving forces behind the future of entrepreneurship. By bringing together a diverse range of voices and ideas, the event is helping to create a more inclusive and dynamic business ecosystem, better equipped to meet the challenges of the 21st century. With a focus on innovation and collaboration, South Summit Brazil is paving the way for a better future.

Game based learning as a training and development strategy according to diversity

The choice of technology to develop people can come with bias, because depending on the technology, it ends up predisposing some people to use this tool more than others.
We are increasingly entering the era of “learning agility” , where changes in skills are more and more constant.
It is important that training technologies are thought of in learning capacity, such as simulated environments and providing data that can contribute to the expansion of initiatives and business impacts.
 

Within this, the Startup Mundi Game Experience is a gamified team training that takes place in an exciting realistic simulation covering the entire journey of an innovative solution, from the idea to scalability, leading to training on the innovation mindset and entrepreneurial education, aligning terminologies and optimizing relationships. 

"It is truly a learning space where we bring the best practices and cases on organizational culture, new processes, entrepreneurship, Open Innovation, as well as new technologies such as Cloud, Design Thinking, Agile culture, Devops, among others", comments the senior manager of innovation and technology at Accenture, Daniel Miranda.