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Schmechel - Building better systems since 1985

You want reliable, repeatable, responsive results

Reliable, Repeatable, Responsive Results My clients want Results... My clients want reliable, repeatable and responsive results. So when a new client comes to me the typical situation is it's either too many errors in their ...
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Are You Still Manually Transferring Data?

Manual Handling of Data The other day I went for a routine examination to a hospital and before I went, I needed to fill-in an online form with all my medical ...
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How To Tap Into The Power Of Our Brains

How To Tap Into The Power Of Our Brains Let's talk about the Power of our Brains...Clients often ask me, where do you come-up with your ideas? How do you solve these business ...
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My Proven Action Steps To Functionality

My Proven Action Steps To Functionality We start with the Strategy session where we discover what is missing in your situation and also what you have already. So we close the gap ...
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How I Solve These Business Riddles

How I Solve These Business Riddles Here is how I solve these business riddles that my clients present to me. They want to let go of the confusion and frustration ...
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How Make Dashboards More Visible

How Make Dashboards More Visible  Here's an example of a Dashboard...which in the first moment, looks a little bit overwhelming because there are so many different graphs on it and so ...
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How To Get Your Focus Back

How To Get Your Focus Back 12 years ago I wrote "Business Lessons from an African safari" - covering the seven principles for success in business I was just reminded of this book ...
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Making This Financial Year Count

Welcome to the new Financial Year... It's the typical situation new school year, new books, new notebook, new financial year, and you think everything will change - and it won't ...
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How Powerful Excel Improves Your Staff Retention

How Powerful Excel Improves Your Staff Retention Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSkpdPdG8M4The big re-shuffling of jobs...Look, we've all read this in the newspaper that people are now looking for the optimal job.People are ...
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More Functionality = Less Frustration

More Functionality = Less Frustration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSkpdPdG8M4Look from my experience, It's all about functionality and efficiency when it comes to systems.And research shows that over 80% of all Excel models are ...
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