During the conference on the »transformation of companies and organisation :its impact on HR ,its mission and organisation « which took place on the 22 of May at Mederic (Paris) and which was hosted by Guillaume Sarkozy and organized by the news group RH-M ,I spoke about the « Paradoxes  of time » about which you’ll find extracts over the next few days.

This conference was introduced by Jean-Michel Caye representative of the Boston Consulting Group  ,presenting the results of a survey (non published yet) « How to address HR challenge worldwide trough 2015. »  To survey the worldwide challenges ,the BCG interviewed more than 4700 executives over 80 countries and markets .The conclusion is that 4 megatrends drive the change in theHR paradigm ,valid in all countries ,summed up by the acronym EGGS.

E for EGO Employees behavior has become more and more individualistic ; it can be seen notably by work life expectations ,employee disengagement and resource versatility.This trend is observed not only in developed countries but also in emerging countries.It’s a general trend all over the world and whatever the level of economic development.

G for GENERATION  The demographic trends demonstrate that the workforce is aging .Consequently ther will be a scarcity of resources particularly in western countries.As a result the negotiation powershift will increase.

G for GLOBALIZATION In the last 5 years the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has increased as much as in the previous 40 years.With this international expansion ,the sourcing become more and more global and the competition for talents fiercer and fiercer.

S for  SPEED OF CHANGE  All over the world companies are changing and need to be adapted to a permanent transformation.They are obliged to adapt due to new sources of innovation , tougher competition and rapid market reaction.

In addition to these megatrends ,we can observe specifically a common interest in managing talents as a critical HR topic.We suspected a probable talent war in the future ,now with this survey we are sure it will happen by 2015.

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A l’évidence le temps raccourcit et se concentre sur le quotidien avec la pression du marché et des actionnaires. L’apparition des nouvelles technologies qui ramènent la vie à l’instant, au traitement immédiat (« tu n’as pas reçu mon mail ? je l’ai envoyé il y a deux minutes ? ») ne fait qu’amplifier ce phénomène de l’immédiateté .

La dynamique quotidienne est de plus en plus concentrée (« combien de mail par jour ? »), de plus en plus rapide ( « quel délai entre chaque mail ? ») et de plus en plus multicanal (téléphone fixe, portable , mail, sms…et  encore un peu de courrier ?).

Dans le même temps l’avenir de la planète s’ouvre à nous, il y exigence de vivre aujourd’hui tout en pensant à demain. Nous sommes devant l’impératif de traiter plus et plus vite au quotidien tout en gardant la ligne d’horizon à hauteur des yeux.

Le développement durable nous rappelle à des valeurs, dont celle de la pérennité comme valeur essentielle. De quoi équilibrer nos actes ,nos comportements et nos engagements .