Talented workforce is a main key to survive in challenging surroundings and quickly volatile busi-ness circumstances. This paper examines the fostering effect of talent management on organizational intelligence at food companies in Jordan through a quantitative approach. Both reliability and validity of measurement scale are evaluated. The paper demonstrates that talent management acts as a sig-nificant antecedent to organizational intelligence. Findings confirm the importance of enjoying tal-ented employees and recommend practitioners and executives to develop and retain their talent pool through a strategic human resource management system in order to better capitalize on intellectual capital and drive it towards realizing the organizational missions.