The preconditions for an effective talent management is clarity of where the organisation is, i.e., the starting point and where it wishes to reach in a given time horizon, i.e., the destination. Talents then constitute the prime resource needed to reach the destination laid out in the organisational goals and vision.
To put any successful talent management programme into action, we need data and a robust MIS. It is intrinsically linked with strategy, with technology, with processes, with the quality initiatives and the traditional HR subsystems such as recruitment, placements, performance appraisal, and compensation.