Transformation of Enterprise Talent Management: From Flat to Fast to Smart to Deep

People who observe technology often say the world has gone Flat to Fast to Smart to Deep.  (Flat means connectivity to people worldwide, Fast means the ability to connect quicker, Smart emphasizes how we collect intelligent data across several attributes, and Deep signifies that you can take action around the data collected).  If you look at this transformation, we have made this change in a period of 25 years!.  One can imagine what historians, two centuries later, will write about such an accomplishment in less than 25 years.  They may even call us the smart aliens from outer space who lived on Earth and accomplished this feat. 

Such is the power of our progress.  This type of progress is also translated and manifested in how Enterprises handle our talent and manage our Human Resources.  If we close our eyes and imagine the work environment in the 1990s (this may reveal my age), if we park our cars in the parking lot at 8 AM – we were lost and immersed in a different world and would not know a thing about the real world till we step out at 5 PM or 6 PM.

Today, an enterprise professional interacts with professionals across 7 to 10 different global locations, access multiple global systems, and think about the ramifications of any policies across multiple countries.  All while managing their personal lives in the same digital ether.