_Learnings Critical Role In Integrated Talent Management_ provides executives and learning professionals with important insights about how to effectively integrate talent management programs into the business process and better measure their results for organization success. Most organizations can improve in the critical area of integrated talent management, or ITM. This new joint ASTD-i4cp study, _Learnings Critical Role In Integrated Talent Management,_ finds that many organizations report significant challenges implementing and sustaining ITM principles and practices. There is a great deal that organizationsand especially learning professionalscan do to help create excellent talent management systems that will generate competitive advantages for their organization in the years to come. Many of the most effective practices in the area of ITM are not widely used in todays organizations. By understanding the nature of these practices, organizations can gain real advantages in todays market place. This Study is based on an analysis of responses from 1,690 business and learning professionals and it includes interviews and case studies of high-performing integrated talent management organizations.