NGA's global talent management survey found that 87% of employees said they believed that talent identification would be critical to the success of their organisations over the next three years.
Yet more than half said that their industry suffered from a lack of suitable candidates, and shockingly, more than one third - 34% - said that their company did not have a talent management program at all.
In the survey of 1,100 UK workers, 88% said they believed that "securing the right people at the right place at the right time" was critical to delivering their organisations vision.
The results could suggest that not enough is being done to address talent management issues across industries globally. The concerns mirror those reflected in NGA's 2011 Talent Management Survey.
Michael Custers, vice president of Strategic Marketing at NGA, said: "Talent management - in particular ensuring that existing talent can be nurtured, new talent can be attracted, and key positions can be replaced if necessary - is a critical concern of businesses.
"There is a real worry out there that there is a lack of readily available talent and that potentially this will impact on a business's ability to deliver its strategic vision.
"These concerns demonstrate clearly the need to ensure that talent management and HR planning aligns to the wider business strategy. Our findings suggest that more could be done to improve this."
In fact, half of those surveyed believed that HR strategy could be better aligned to company strategy.
