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Five Formulas That Run Your Reports
You do not need to learn a hundred formulas. You need five. These five formulas will cover 90% of what you want to track. Total sales. Number of orders. Average deal size. Complaints by category. Performance by salesperson. All of it comes down to counting and adding, with or without
Your Reports Can Update Themselves
If you have been using Excel for years, this will feel strange at first. In Excel, you pull data from somewhere. You process it. You create a report. You email it to someone. Next week, you do the same thing again. And again. Every report is manual work. This is
Part 1: How to Decide What Data is Worth Collecting
You understand why clean data matters. You know forms are better than spreadsheets. You're ready to start collecting data. But what data should you collect? The trap Businesses want to collect everything. Customer details, transaction history, employee activities, supplier performance, market trends. The list never ends. So they
Part 2: Why Spreadsheets Fail at Data Collection and What to Do About It
In Part 1, we talked about why data needs to be readable by programs, not just people. Now let's look at why the way most teams collect data is broken and how to fix it. Why spreadsheets fail at data collection Spreadsheets are flexible. That's their
Part 1: Why Data Collection is the Foundation for Building Successful Systems
You've organised your files. You've set up permissions. You can find anything in seconds. But none of that matters if the data inside those files is a mess. Most teams collect data. Few collect it in a way that's actually useful. This post is
