More on "Talent Management"
Here's just a bit of what Naomi Moneypenny has to say:

I'm seeing a worrying trend at some large organizations....What is it? Lack of people....[I]t seems like everyday I'm talking to clients and leaders at large organizations who have a culture or change problem, or just a plain 'shorthanded' problem. Why - because the people who 'survived' the downsizing and cost cutting over the last few years, may not be the people who want to grow and change the organization.

...So let's see - there were bubble times, where the 'creative' and up and coming types were perhaps involved in more risk taking things like incubators, venture units and intrapreneurship. Pop went the bubble, and the first to go were the loss making wild ideas....So who's left after those who were close to retirement, voluntarily or involuntarily, departed? The people who don't like to take risks, who embody the traditions of the company, and kept their heads down during the cost cutting. Now, most organizations incented these behaviors during cost cutting, and now suddenly enterprises are waking up to the fact that employees have retrenched and are probably feeling highly over worked and under valued. So let's pull the rug from out under these people, and try to change the culture, threaten them with offshoring and the need to grow... I hate to think of the consequences...