SESSION DESCRIPTION An in-depth look at how Dell's growth agenda led to the newly created function of global talent management. This function combines both executive talent acquisition and learning and development in an effort to maximize Dell’s ability to balance growing its own talent with hiring from the outside. Dell is charting new territory with little benchmarking available, since very few companies have grown scaled organically as fast as Dell. Striking the right balance between internal and external talent is one of the holy grails of the human resource function for which there are few reliable manuals, so Dell finds itself in a constant state of change imperfectly seizing the unknown.