Where did the term "Talent Management" come from?

This term is usually associated with competency-based human resource management practices. Talent management decisions are often driven by a set of organizational core competencies as well as position-specific competencies. The competency set may include knowledge, skills, experience, and personal traits (demonstrated through defined behaviors).

Older competency models might also contain attributes that rarely predict success (e.g. education, tenure, and diversity factors that are illegal to consider in many countries).

In the late 1990s, technology companies engaged in a 'war for talent'.

The term was coined by McKinsey & Company following a 1997 study and then it was the title of a book by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod.

McKinsey and Co first coined the term...read this wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent_management