The next era of human resources management is Talent Intelligence, which goes far beyond talent management. It looks to the past for competency clues, to the present for results and development needs, and the future for succession planning and talent mobility.

- By Malibu Kothari

Talent Intelligence is a proactive approach to ensuring a business always has the right people on board to maximize performance now and in the future. In the traditional staffing model, companies waited until a need arose for specific talent and would fill positions based on that need. Human resources information systems were designed to track people once they were on board based on factors like education, compensation and training. However, these systems have a lot of information gaps that made them almost useless for strategic decision making. Talent Intelligence fills the gaps by linking decision making to human resources information or data and enabling managers to use those linkages to enhance business performance.