FOREWORD

When it comes to talent management, there’s a four-letter word on the lips of human capital professionals everywhere—data. Consider this research from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp): When some of the world’s top companies were asked what their biggest workforce planning challenges are, data-related challenges were the top two listed.

 

Workforce Planning Challenges for High-Performance Organizations

1. Technologies that do not share data effectively 46%
2. Unreliable data 35%
6. Lack of data 32%

Source: 2012 Strategic Workforce Planning Survey. Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp).

 

Yet reliable and comprehensive data is crucial to effective talent management. While talent management ...

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