Case Study of Ipsen Pharmaceuticals

Abstract

This case study is included for a different reason from the others. We stated earlier that any organisation practices some talent management, regardless of the existence of a formal system. The motivations may be various, including the greater desire to retain some employees over others, the wish to spend limited development budgets to best effect, and the wish to make internal promotions, where possible, rather than to recruit externally. Any of these motivations are likely to underpin practices that could be labelled as talent management. Ipsen currently has no formal process of talent management and is included as an illustration of practices outside a formal system by an organisation that is now actively considering implementing a more formal system.