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How Excel Users Can Become Ultra-Productive, with a New Excel Strategy & AI’s Help

It’s a new era. Excel users now can slash their Excel scutwork, surge their brainwork, and rely on AI as a constant partner. Here’s how…

Career 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.

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. You should start with Excel users.

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

Career Success

How to Create a ‘Golden Portfolio’ of Your Best Excel Work

A unique new type of Excel portfolio proves your Excel skills and business knowledge. 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 strategy for working with data in Excel slashes Excel scutwork and restores mental energy.


The bright light of a high experience curve.

Business Success

Introducing the Excel Insight Flywheel

Most Excel users and their companies struggle with low Excel productivity. Here’s how the EDP Strategy opens the door to three productive forces that compound to deliver ultra-productivity for Excel.

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Business Success

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

AI reshapes productivity—deep thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration now drive ROI, not tasks completed or time logged.

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Business Success

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

Fast growth needs more than vision—it requires real-time data, AI insights, and Excel strategies to spot opportunities early.

An Excel worker working from home.

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 real-time intelligence—fast, clear, strategic.


A leaping figure symbolizing a successful Excel user.

Business Success

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

How to empower Excel users to generate insights, slash burnout, and create meaningful, high-impact business insights with scalable flowbook-automated reports.

Super Excel man with charts and tables

Business Success

Excel Unbound: Six Paths to Excel Super Power at Scale

Unlock Excel’s hidden scalability. Here are six powerful ways to transform Excel into an agile, automated, and high-impact reporting tool—freeing professionals from manual work and expanding strategic possibilities.

Stategic digital twins

Business Success

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

How to transform static spreadsheets into adaptive learning tools. Use real-time data, back-test decisions, and optimize strategies with a structured, refreshable system designed for continuous financial insight and business innovation.

Career Success

How to Do More Meaningful Work in Any Company

Transform your job without quitting. Reclaim your time, upskill with AI, and contribute strategically—turning Excel drudgery into meaningful work that boosts engagement, career growth, and recognition within your company.


Why Most Management Reports Fail—and How to Build Ones That Work

Traditional reports bury insight in noise, stalling action and exhausting talent. This guide introduces a smarter model that turns raw data into decision-ready clarity—fueling faster strategy, sharper alignment, and reporting that finally works for the leaders it serves.


Low value Excel work

Business Success

Managers: Stop Overpaying for Low-Value Excel Work—Here’s How

Managers are overspending on repetitive Excel tasks while missing out on high-value insights. Learn how automation, GenAI, and a smarter Excel strategy can reclaim time, reduce waste, and improve decisions.

Struggle with Excel to teach Excel

Business Success

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

Invest in training—retain your best. When employees grow, they stay. This article debunks the myth that training drives turnover and shows how skilled teams deliver value, loyalty, and lasting impact.

From reports to revelations.

Business Success

Excel’s Hidden Strategic Power: From Reports to Revelations

Unlock the hidden strategic power of Excel by transforming routine data flows into innovation pipelines. Automate, analyze, and adapt with refreshable flowbooks that reveal insights, challenge assumptions, and fuel business growth.

Cost control engine.

Business Success

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

Discover how a modern Excel strategy turns manual reports into automated reflows—helping CFOs control costs, scale insights, and implement zero-based strategies across finance, marketing, and supply chain—without growing headcount.

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