The best way for a company to build sustainable competitive advantage is by creating a human capital strategy that links talent management to business strategy, and includes hiring the right bright people, differentiating the development programs, creating a culture of retention, and integrating succession planning to create a talent factory.
Learning organization leaders are increasingly being asked to oversee end-to-end talent management processes to assure that the company’s needs are met with not only a robust pipeline of qualified individuals to fill high-level openings, but with talent at all levels that has the skills needed to execute the business strategy. This requires a clear understanding of the long-term business strategy, and also the capability to translate that strategy into the knowledge, skills and abilities that the company will need. Areas where partners can be helpful include experts in competency development, recruiting, performance management processes, and talent strategy development.
Talent management & development is an element of the Capability Planning dimension in the Align quadrant of the CorpU 12 Dimensions of Learning Excellence.




