Want Some Free Research on HR's Connection to Organic Business Growth?

by TMT Editor

Because of talent management software, services and solutions provider Plateau Systems' sponsorship of Aberdeen Group research, a new report titled "Integrated Talent Management: Improving Business Results through Visibility and Alignment" is available for free, according to an announcement viewable on TMT.

The report, which remains complimentary through March 5, 2010, reflects nearly 350 HR and line of business executives' responses to a survey. Key to organic business growth, according to the findings, is the alignment of the workforce with near- and long-term organizational goals. While this may seem intuitive, the temptation to neglect workforce alignment can befall any growing organization as it focuses undue energy on driving sales. The result is, frequently, an organization bereft of the internal harmony and heft necessary to follow through and execute on new business efforts once these become the existing, paying client or customer base.

Best-in-Class organizations, as defined in Aberdeen's report, are 150 percent more likely than Laggards (also as defined by Aberdeen's report) to have strong alignment between their talent management initiatives and their organizations' strategic business objectives. As part of this alignment, Aberdeen's findings reveal, Best-in-Class organizations are more likely to have integrated disparate talent management processes and data, and are nearly twice as likely to have defined metrics to measure talent management effectiveness in their organizations.