
Strategic Compensation Technology Series: Data & Decision Intelligence – The Foundation of Strategic Compensation
ost organizations treat compensation planning as an annual scramble: budgets get set, spreadsheets proliferate, decisions get made, and then everyone hopes the data was accurate. This reactive approach fails precisely when decisions matter most. Paper 2 examines why compensation modeling demands always-on infrastructure and why “good enough” data quality costs organizations an average of $12.9 million annually in poor decisions, rework, and missed opportunities.











