Derive Technologies has always provided the highest standards of service and driven significant business value for our clients and their stakeholders. Our team has achieved these goals through clear, honest communication about the solutions we deliver and through a collaborative approach to service delivery, grounded on actively listening to and understanding our clients' business objectives and needs.

Our basic corporate values are built on the following principles:

• Innovation: Continuing to be at the forefront of business and technology.
• Respect: For the objectives, size and orientation of the business enterprises we serve.
• Open communication and collaboration: With our clients, partners and all others we serve and with whom we interface—true transparency leading to clarity.
• Ethical conduct: At all times, all levels and in all of our dealings.
• Hiring and retaining the best and brightest professional talent: To become and remain your trusted IT business advisors.
• Diversity: Embodying the underlying principles of diversity set forth by our place as a Minority-Owned Business Enterprise and in society.
• Fair labor practices: In the U.S. and throughout the world (according to the standards of the International Labor Organization and other governance in New York City, New York State, throughout the Nation and the World).
• Joy: We feel that cooperation, business process transformation and mutual success can only be achieved through joyful collaboration.

Derive utilizes industry-standard best practices to execute all of our IT business solutions, but we pride ourselves in the ability to tune these standards and the methods in which they are applied to your specific business culture. We do not “impose” methodology; we integrate it with open eyes and ears to your goals, to who you are and to the ways in which your business works. This spirit of teamwork, open communication, and measurable, while realistic, goal-setting with our clients has created an atmosphere of mutual trust, respect and success that has been the cornerstone of our company for over two decades.

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Derive inherently believes, for our business practices and for our commitment to our clients, our own team and to our place in the business world and in society, in the code set forth by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development:

"Corporate social responsibility is the continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life of the workforce and their families, as well as of the local community and society at large." (CSR: Meeting Changing Expectations, 1999).

It is with this set of beliefs that we are uncompromising in creating a positive, amiable, growth-oriented working environment for our own team, and in adding value to the New York and other communities around the Nation and the Globe.