Technology Oversight and the Role of the Compensation Committee

How to use this tool:

Compensation committee members can use this tool as a resource for integrating technology governance into the committee’s core functions, including: understanding technology value in financial metrics and value creation and links to incentive design, incentivizing leadership and talent, and future proofing the company’s succession planning.

It’s easy to see how the compensation and human capital committee of any given board could believe technology and data are central to their company’s future, and at the same time, judge that it’s too early for this shift to impact its core committee responsibilities. As a surprising amount of the compensation committee’s work still looks back, not forward, committee members may feel insulated from the coming impacts of disruptive technology and new innovations.