Complexity and Speed ​​at the heart of Contemporary Change

We are facing a radically new context compared to past eras, a context that forces us to redefine the forms of communication , language and training .

How can we identify the novelties and cornerstones of this great change that is taking place?

Corporate Communication and Training: Complexity and Speed

The first aspect to underline is that of Complexity .

By complexity we mean, here, the high number of information and data that interact with each other and with which each of us is faced when making a decision. It is a number that is growing exponentially and the web certainly acts as an accelerator of this process.

Having an enormous amount of information to have and to manage, the issue of how to move , govern and not be overwhelmed by this large mass of information therefore becomes urgent. It is urgent to know how to identify priorities, distinguishing useful things from useless ones , thus learning the art of filtering stimuli and sources. A decidedly new theme for humanity.

The second major aspect of the current context is Speed .

We interact in a rapidly changing society because every DarkComet innovation, every discovery adds up to the previous ones, creating an exponential, ever faster evolution.

Alvin Toffler and “The Third Wave”

In the late nineties Alvin Toffler wrote “The Third Wave” . In his book he defined the third wave as a fifteen year era.

Specifically Tofler was referring to the period between 1985 and 2000 . A period so intense as to be equal, precisely in terms of intensity of change, to the previous one hundred and fifty years, which in turn were so intense as to be equal to the fifteen hundred years that preceded them.

At the time Tofler writes, the breakneck pace of that era seems unbelievable. But in contemporary society this intensity is further exacerbated and the cycles of change no longer count for fifteen years, they have drastically shortened, defining very short cycles with an epochal character.