JGD Strategies LLC

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JGD Strategies provides consulting services to organizations in the automation day-to-day business processes, with a specialization in the areas of Talent Management and Compensation.

Are looking to simplify your annual incentive calculation process or wanting to extend your Human Capital analytics in these trying economic times? Do you need help in defining vendor specifications and scorecards for your performance or compensation management systems? Is there a complex process eating up your resources because you are manually administering it in Microsoft Excel? Do you need to pull information from multiple systems into a single data warehouse so that you can see the big picture?

At JGD Strategies, we can provide all of these services plus more. With over 20 years of experience in all things automation, we can address those unique needs of every organization in streamlining your business processes as well as find the right vendor with the right solutions for you.

Jobs versus Positions

Posted by Greg Darnley on December 2, 2009

When it comes to managing compensation in your organization, one of the most important things to understand is the difference between a Job and Position. These terms are often used interchangeably and they could not be more different. More to come...

Do I Need a Custom Solution

Posted by Greg Darnley on December 2, 2009

Quite often an organization that is looking for a vendor solution that automates their exact process (whether it be a performance management, succession planning or compensation management system) finds themselves chosing from the lesser of evils. Do we go with a solution that provides most of what we need but is missing a key feature or two, or do we select a vendor that has the ability to tailor their solution to address all of our needs? In many cases there is a vendor application that so closely matches your needs, but it is missing that one feature that is a key part of your organization's strategy. More to come...

Compensation Planning -- Talent Management or Financial Planning?

Posted by Greg Darnley on December 2, 2009

Coming soon is an article that was written on whether applications that are used for planning merit increases and/or discretionary bonuses should be considered part of an overall Talent Management Suite, or is it really just a financial planning tool with strategic HR business rules. You can decide. More to come...

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Have the Happiest of Holidays!!!

Sincerely,
Greg Darnley
Founder/Managing Consultant

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