As corporate diversity programs and initiatives continue to gain strength and gather momentum across the country, the boundaries of diversity are extending well beyond the more traditional concepts of race and sex to include sexual orientation, national origin and religion. Today, creating a corporate culture of inclusion means embracing and leveraging the benefits of building and maintaining a work force with a broad variety of language skills and cultural backgrounds, as well as a wide range of ages, physical abilities and disabilities.

The most enlightened companies are using their diversity initiatives to spread this expanded, more inclusive concept of diversity to their vendors and suppliers, who themselves are demanding that diversity become an integral part of the way companies do business. The most successful companies will be those that recognize the power of diversity in their work forces and in their product mix, and effectively create products and services that appeal to their increasingly diverse customer bases. These companies know that diversity will become even more important in the coming years, and that the leading companies will be those best reflecting the increasingly diverse marketplaces they serve

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