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Employers that let vendors be the primary decision-makers when it comes to talent risk amassing "talent clones" instead of identifying a "kaleidoscope of talent", an academic says.

In her new book Rethinking Talent Decisions, University of Wollongong School of Business academic Dr Sharna Wiblen says the former question of which HR or talent management system to use has become a question of how many.

"When I ask HR and senior executives how many systems they use to support talent decisions, I find that organisations have moved beyond the decision between proprietary and vendor-designed systems. Instead, they have entered a complex situation where they maintain multiple vendor systems," Wiblen writes, noting she encountered one Australian professional services firm that used a "staggering" 80 different HR technologies to capture, store and analyse its data...