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Here’s How to Make Excel Ultra-Productive—With AI’s Help

Most Excel users labor in a burnout-inducing, unproductive world of Excel scutwork. But now, a new, ultra-productive, all-Excel strategy supports Excel brainwork instead.

Business Success

How to Cure the 10 Worst Excel Problems that Companies Have

Most companies struggle with Excel. But here’s an all-Excel fix that turns chaos into clarity, and users into innovators.

Brave people who thrive on danger and uncertainty.

Business Success

How to Build an Excel Workforce That Thrives in Uncertainty

McKinsey says it’s essential to develop a resilient workforce for an uncertain future. Start with Excel users.

A new type of Excel portfolio that demonstrates skills and professional knowledge

Career Success

How to Create and Use a Golden Portfolio of Your Best Excel Work

A unique new type of Excel portfolio proves your Excel skills. ChatGPT calls it “brilliant.”

Career Success

Excel Burnout: Why It Happens, and How a New Excel Strategy Can Cure It

With help from AI, a new all-Excel strategy slashes Excel burnout and restores mental energy.


AI is coming for millions of white-collar jobs. Is your job safe?

Career Success

AI Is Coming for Millions of White-Collar Jobs—Will It Come for Your Job?

AI threatens Excel jobs—but Data Plumbers thrive by building resilient, insight-rich systems that AI can’t replace.

Manual Excel work hides a steep opportunity cost. This article shows how to calculate the cost—and how to eliminate it.

Business Success

It’s Just Math—The High Opportunity Cost of Excel Scutwork

Every hour of Excel scutwork wastes significant business value. Learn how large that value actually is and what companies of any size can do about it.

Traditional Excel training fuels burnout. HR can fix it by building core competencies that unlock automation, insight, and meaningful work.

Business Success

HR: Teaching Just Excel Skills Keeps Productivity Low—Here’s Why

Still teaching only Excel skills? You’re holding your team back. Learn why they must also learn an all-Excel strategy to boost retention & productivity.

HR can end Excel burnout by replacing scutwork with strategy—empowering users to automate, innovate, and drive insight with the EDP Strategy.

Business Success

From Burnout to Breakthrough: How HR Can Lead the Next Era of Excel Training

This all-Excel solution ends Excel burnout so users can deliver quick, high-impact business insights.


Unlock Excel's hidden scalability. Here are six ways to transform Excel into an agile, high-impact reporting tool—freeing users from scutwork.

Business Success

Excel Unbound: 6 Paths to Excel Super Power at Scale

Unlock Excel’s hidden scalability. Here are six ways to transform Excel into an agile, high-impact reporting tool—freeing users from scutwork.

Help CEOs move faster. Excel users who harness AI, FRED, and Sharadar can validate strategy, automate dataflows, and drive high-value growth.

Business Success

How Users of Excel & AI Can Help CEOs Execute Bold Growth Plans

Excel pros who use AI and an all-Excel strategy can help CEOs plan, validate, and accelerate growth.

Stop scutwork. Discover how Excel pros use flowbooks and AI to deliver faster insights, deeper impact, and next-level business value.

Business Success

Beyond Scutwork: The New ROI of Ultra-Productive Excel Users in an AI World

Fast growth needs real-time data, AI insights, and all-Excel strategies to spot opportunities early.

Remote Excel users with flowbooks and AI shift from busywork to breakthroughs—delivering insight, not just output—no matter where they work.

Career Success

Freedom to Think: How Remote Excel Users Can Deliver Insight on Demand

In remote work, insight matters most. Flowbook automation lets Excel users deliver it—fast, clear, strategic.


Think Excel can’t do real analytics? Think again. Automate data flows, model strategy, and unlock predictive insight—all inside Excel.

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The EDP Strategy: Your New Path to Excel Analytics

Streamline decision-making with AI-powered Excel flowbooks that transform management reports into strategic insight.

Career Success

Why Management Reports Fail—and How to Build Ones That Don’t


How to lay the groundwork for becoming a CFO

Business Success

How to Turn Excel Into a CFO Career Accelerator

Supercharge your finance career by mastering Excel as a strategic toolkit—automate reports with flowbooks, build CFO‑level dashboards and models, and elevate your impact with AI‑driven analysis.

Excel isn’t just for reporting—it’s a strategy engine. Learn how Excel Data Plumbers turn flowbooks into nimble business insights.

Business Success

Excel’s Hidden Strategic Power: From Reports to Revelations

Discover how Excel Data Plumbers turn routine reports into rapid-fire innovation—fueling imagination, agility, and growth with every click.

Turn raw data into persuasive stories. Learn how Excel, AI, and flipbooks deliver insights faster—with less scutwork and more impact.

Career Success

How to Use Excel and AI to Tell Powerful Stories About Your Data

Turn your Excel reports into business-changing stories. Learn how AI, flipbooks, and an all-Excel strategy unlock faster business insights.


Discover how managers can cut costs and boost results by ending low-value Excel work—by starting with the Excel Data Plumbing Strategy.

Business Success

Managers: Stop Paying for Excel Scutwork—Here’s How

Still paying top dollar for bottom-value Excel work? This article shows how to eliminate scutwork and unleash your team’s strategic potential—with an all-Excel solution.

Cost control engine.

Business Success

How to Turn Excel into a Cost Control Engine That Fuels Growth

Want to grow faster and cut costs? Discover how an all-Excel strategy transforms Excel into an automated insight engine—so your finance team can scale impact, not effort.

Career Success

Outcomes Over Hours: How to Win the Job Without Losing Your Life

Want a job that respects your personal life? Learn how Excel users can win top roles remotely—by delivering sharper insights, not longer hours.


McKinsey mapped the model. Excel Data Plumbing delivers it—empowering teams to move faster, decide smarter, and lead from the front line.

Business Success

How to Power McKinsey’s Operating Model with Excel & AI

Don’t quit—transform. Use the Excel Data Plumbing Strategy to automate scutwork and build the meaningful job hiding in your current one.

Career Success

How to Do More Meaningful Work in Any Company


Explore how interactive Excel flowbooks empower Data Plumbers to uncover insights faster—using slicers, reflows, and strategic data plumbing.

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3 Examples of Highly Interactive Excel Reflows

See how interactive Excel flowbooks unlock faster insights, smarter decisions, and more strategic impact. These three examples show why interactivity isn’t a luxury—it’s the new baseline for brainwork.

The EDP Strategy gives Excel users time for their personal life.

Career Success

EDP’s Gift for Burned Out Excel Users: How to Take Back Your Personal Life

Escape the Excel grind. This all-Excel strategy slashes Excel scutwork and gives you back what matters most: time, clarity, and your actual life.

Flowbooks + AI = nimble Excel. Adapt fast, revise quickly, and deliver insight on demand—EDP Strategy turns volatility into opportunity.

Career Success

Excel Users Nimble? You Bet! Here’s Why

Excel isn’t just keeping up—it’s evolving. This article shows how an all-Excel strategy transforms Excel users into agile, insight-driven pros who thrive in volatile business environments with Excel flowbooks.


Use Excel Strategy Twins to test strategic assumptions, back-test key metrics, and steer smarter decisions—in rolling models and forecasts.

Business Success

How to Build a Strategic Time Machine in Excel with Digital Twins

Excel Strategy Twins transform static output into adaptive, refreshable models—enabling back testing and simulation using real-time data.

Upskill to retain. Empower Excel users to automate, innovate, and build value—with managers who know how to unleash their team’s potential.

Business Success

Managers: Train Them Well—So They’ll Stay and Deliver More

Want your best people to stay? Then learn how an all-Excel strategy turns upskilling into a powerful strategy for retention and performance.

The business flywheel effect from learning and experience curves.

Business Success

Introducing the Excel Insight Flywheel

Most Excel users and their companies struggle with low Excel productivity. Here’s how a new all-Excel strategy opens the door to perpetual increases in Excel productivity.


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