Jean-Michel Caye
Managing Director & Senior Partner
Paris
Jean-Michel Caye is the global head of Boston Consulting Group’s human resources and talent and leadership topics worldwide. He is also a core member of the pharmaceutical and banking topics, various industry practices, and the Corporate Development practice.
A BCG Fellow since 2011, Jean-Michel’s research topic has been talent. He believes that the so-called "war for talent" has reached unprecedented levels because of global aging and economic development—and the solution must come from building, not buying, new talent. His goal is to determine the ingredients for creating a successful approach to building talent
Through Jean-Michel’s work at BCG, he has accumulated deep knowledge of most people advantage domains. He has extensive experience in international postmerger integrations, focusing on program management, cultural integration, and employee communications. He understands the people issues that are involved in turnarounds, including workforce restructuring and workforce engagement.
In addition, he has worked extensively on HR transformation in several areas, such as transport equipment, power generation, and electrical contracting companies.
Prior to joining BCG in 1998, Jean-Michel was director at Hay Group, responsible of the reward and pharmaceutical practices in France. He led several HR and organization cases in the fields of sales force effectiveness, reward policies, competence assessment and development, reorganization, and culture change. He also has experience in the IT service industry.
To woo them, the country should tout its strong economy and labor reforms.
All the tech in the world is meaningless without the talent to put it to use.
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A number of major challenges—including tight budgets and a looming retirement wave—make it critical for governments to transform their HR organizations.
The index is the first tool to precisely quantify a company’s leadership and talent management capabilities.
Three case studies illustrate how leading HR departments can take on a greater strategic role within organizations and help them compete more effectively.
This report, published in conjunction with the World Federation of People Management Associations, identifies three common themes that characterize top-performing HR functions.
BCG experts give European companies a clear, quantitatively derived playbook for improving their people-management capabilities across ten core HR topics.
The concurrent need to reduce personnel costs and retain critical talent requires organizations to continually adjust their workforces to deal with the new reality.
BCG’s seventh Creating People Advantage report reveals the three most critical people-management priorities: managing talent, improving leadership development, and strategic workforce planning.
