See how Excel can protect your life!
Recently a client came to me and wanted to create a spreadsheet which they then wants to send out to a thousand people. And the obvious question is, how can he or she protect their IP? The short answer is Excel does not really give you lots of protection. What do I mean? Well, there are tools on […]
Racing Excel – When Every Second Counts
Recently a client asked for help with his Excel model. He’d created a very complex and integrated set of sheets within one Workbook. His problem was, that each calculation took between ten and fifteen seconds. It does not sound much – ten seconds… Just imagine yourself entering a simple figure into your Excel sheet and then……wait…wait…wait…wait…for […]
Do you neglect your Dashboards?
https://youtu.be/9OCOF_TGEzE Do you know, how important dashboards can be in your organisation? You want to see and steer your organisation by looking at just one sheet. One Excel sheet where you have different dashboards showing you the progress, the development, the statistics, and the forecast for your organisation. You want to steer you organisation with one glance. […]
Three issues with your Financial Models
https://youtu.be/l87s8h1xi00 Let’s talk about Financial Modelling When it comes to Financial Models we are thinking of Profit & Loss, Budget, Forecasting, those kinds of things. And it could be way more… It could be a property development proposal.It could be the calculation of your investment over time. There are three major issues I see with the […]
Lego
Excel has a lot in common with Lego. I compare Excel often to Lego. You’re getting building blocks and it all depends on what you build from them…Is it’s stable? Is it sustainable? Is it functional? Sometimes it might be just that you still have the building blocks, and it’s all crumbled, and you are not quite sure what the […]
What does ‘No Decision’ really mean?
No Decision is also a decision. Look, if you are sitting on the fence and not deciding whether to do or not to do a certain project… That part of Not Deciding is also a decision and people often underestimate the consequences of that third alternative. “Let’s do this” = Yes!“No, let’s not”, no no we don’t” = No!“Let’s wait maybe?” = […]
The classic safari company
Many of you know, that The Classic Safari Company is one of my longest active clients. I have the privilege to serve Julie, Sarah and their team since 2011. Back then we started to systemise, structure and automate their workflow. That soon became their complete back-office system to create the famous bespoke safaris to Africa, Latin America and […]
You can’t outperform unfunctional systems
https://youtu.be/I3wnhR2da1M I’m using a phrase here which is used in the weight loss industry, saying:“You can’t outperform a bad diet“ And the same is true for your systems: You can’t outperform unfunctional systems. If you are spending too much time because the system is dragging you down, is lagging you down, you can’t outperform that. And […]
The use of excel in your HR Department
https://youtu.be/inUvz1kEBTs Are you working in HR?If you are working in HR, you are coming across a lot of Excel Spreadsheets – probably more than you did expect.There are bonus forms, overtime- & training-forms, and even the contracts are built using Excel.The interesting part is, you can actually automate these things.A lot of people don’t know what’s possible with Excel,You might think […]
What’s most important for you in your workflow?
Recently I conducted a poll on LinkedIn – asking my over 2,000 connections for their opinion on the question “What is most important?” There were four options to choose from… Accuracy Speed Transparency Functionality The responses from over 30 people were really eye opening. But before you read any further – maybe you’d like to contemplate […]