Most organizations today understand the necessity of fully tapping the contributions of a wide variety of people in order to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse, global marketplace. So most organizations want to ensure that their diversity initiatives are planned and implemented in a manner that allows them to attract and leverage the contributions of a broad pool of talent. There is a set of key components in creating diversity programs that support organizations to utilize their diversity to become more productiveâ€"elements that hold true across all industries, regardless of geography, size or history.