INSEAD, the France-based business school for the world, released the 2017 Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2015-16, an annual study based on research in partnership with the Adecco Group and the Human Capital Leadership Institute of Singapore.

One again, Switzerland again ranked No. 1 on the list.

High ranking countries share key traits, according to INSEAD. Those traits include educational systems that meet the needs of the economy; employment policies that favour flexibility, mobility and entrepreneurship; and high connectedness of stakeholders in business, education and government as well as high level of technological competence. 

Top 10 Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2017 rankings:

1. Switzerland
2. Singapore
3. UK
4. US
5. Sweden
6. Australia
7. Luxembourg
8. Denmark
9. Finland
10. Norway

This year’s report analyses how technology can indeed ‘augment’ human efficiency. It goes further by examining how technological change affects and intensifies talent competitiveness and the nature of work.

“Technological disruption will also require us to work differ­ently in the future. In my own industry alone, human resource departments face significant changes, with the availability of big data, faster and more precise search and matching systems in re­cruitment, and increasingly advanced and predictive HR manage­ment tools,” Alain Dehaze, CEO of Adecco, wrote in the report. “More broadly, the latest [Global Talent Competitiveness Index] foresees new paradigms in workforce management, with a more dispersed workforce, greater autonomy for individual employees, and the search for an improved work-life balance thanks to advances in communica­tions and ‘smart’ working, all prompting greater flexibility.”

The full report is available online.

https://www.insead.edu/sites/default/files/assets/dept/globalindices/docs/GTCI-2017-report.pdf