Posts by Ian Campbell

I attended the Ceridian analyst day last week, and it reinforced why I really like Ceridian. Looking at them from the Nucleus Research approach of analyzing return on investment, Ceridian consistently delivers value for their customers, and that’s enough to put them at the top of any short list. But I like them for another…

Like many companies, we have employees who work remotely and to support these employees we’ve had seamless connectivity to the office for many years.  Unfortunately. this remote access recently allowed hackers to launch a brute force attack on our phone system (although it was quickly discovered and access was disabled before any damage was done). …

Ask any CEO and they’ll likely tell you the toughest part of their job is managing people. Get a few drinks in them and you can probably get them to recount stories of amazingly difficult employees (I know I have a few). The challenge for managers is that employees are a unique resource with multiple…

We’ve said it in the past so it’s well-worn territory, but it’s not hard to see the days of the CIO are numbered. Today’s VP of Sales or Marketing has an integrated view of the tools at their disposal and they’re the ones driving technology initiatives, not being supported by them. So what does that…

We’ve published numerous ROI case studies assessing the value of on-demand solutions and there’s no question the math supports the value of the cloud. Low initial investment and expensed versus capitalizes costs make it an easy financial decision compared to on premise. In fact we see very few on-premise decisions in process and no situations…

There are many applications for human capital management, but how do we entice and motivate young workers? Thanks to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and old-school texting, the current generation of worker shows up with a severe case of technology-induced ADD.  Some recent (and not scientific) discussions during HCM case study interviews found that this everyone-is-special generation…