Microsoft’s Power BI has been shaking up the market for self-service business intelligence applications. However, it doesn’t follow the usual Microsoft pricing model. Historically, Microsoft products have been sold as a large upfront purchase, or as a monthly or ... Read more

GDPR is coming soon. The General Data Protection Regulation is being introduced by the European Union on 25th May 2018. The new law on data privacy and data protection significantly strengthens European citizen’s rights to online privacy and control of their ... Read more

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words.

Graphs and charts are wonderful things. They give you the power to explain what’s in your dataset while requiring you to write only a small amount of dreary text. However, ... Read more

'Manager.'

It's an important role.  Some people think being manager means you are the boss, but in fact what you are, for all intents and purposes, is an enabler;Read more

When you are modelling a business problem in Excel, you will often want to know how the output of your model is affected by changes in some of the input variables. To do this you use sensitivity analysis, which is so called because you are ... Read more

Over the past few years, many large organizations have adopted business intelligence platforms like Tableau and are rolling them out to varying degrees of success. If your engagement has a heavy data analysis component, it’s highly likely that your clients will expect you to use toolkits like ... Read more

Training your team is an investment. It costs time, energy and money to teach a workforce a new skill. It is therefore important that companies be able to identify how effective training ... Read more

When I initially started writing this post, I intended to focus on the most widely used Excel formulas for business. All I could think of was very basic formulas like SUM, AVG, IF, AND and so on. Of course, these are very ... Read more

So you want to be a terrible leader?

You might think it looks easy (and you would be right), but even "pretty bad" leaders can benefit from some tips and tricks to achieve their full ... Read more

When working in Excel, keyboard shortcuts are probably the single best way of improving your skills and in particular, your productivity. In the previous ... Read more

Over the past few years, we’ve noticed that the managers who were most successful in implementing e-learning had a few common characteristics. One characteristic was that they understood the importance of the dynamics of effective implementation. This knowledge enabled them to not just deliver ... Read more

 There's a big difference between knowing how to use Excel and knowing how to use it efficiently. Whether you’re new to Excel, or even if you’ve used it for a while, it’s very tempting and easy to do everything with the ... Read more