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Your Excel users aren’t working up to their potential. But it’s not their fault.
As a rule, they’re smart, well-educated, work long hours, and know a lot about Excel. But like a carpenter who has no blueprint to follow, they have no strategy to follow when they work with data in Excel. And therefore, their report-construction projects are mostly trial and error.
The EDP Strategy gives them the blueprint they need. And this category explores how your company can benefit from that transformation.
22 high-leverage, non-training income streams for Excel Data Plumbers who want visibility, security, and serious financial upside SUMMARY: Explore 22 Excel side hustles designed for Finance professionals using the EDP Strategy. These high-leverage ideas offer income, visibility, and protection in a layoff-prone, AI-disrupted world. In a world where layoffs are celebrated as strategic wins, and…
Or will Excel users become more powerful than ever? Here’s what the AI wave means for your team—and the strategic advantage you’re about to miss. SUMMARY: AI is reshaping Excel work by eliminating manual, repetitive tasks and demanding structured, automated workflows. Entry-level roles face extinction, but professionals at all levels can adapt by mastering two…
This all-Excel strategy ends Excel scutwork, automates your reports and analyses, and frees your team to deliver high-impact insights—faster, with help from AI. SUMMARY: Most Excel users are stuck in a loop of mindless copy-paste, brittle formulas, and late-night fixes. That loop ends here. The EDP Strategy replaces Excel drudgery with structured, automated, Power Query–enabled…
SUMMARY: Most Excel users are unaware of the broken Excel strategy in which they’re immersed. The strategy wastes time, hides insight, and burns out talent. This article exposes the cost of that hidden strategy and introduces a scalable, all-Excel alternative, with help from ChatGPT—which reduces errors and slashes reporting times. To implement the strategy, click…
SUMMARY: Many companies are shifting to skills-based hiring and learning—but when it comes to Excel, this approach deepens the problem. Teaching only Excel skills reinforces burnout and low productivity. The solution isn’t more Excel skills—it’s a systematic, all-Excel method of processing data in Excel, with help from ChatGPT. HR can lead the transformation by encouraging…
Here’s how companies lose thousands of dollars per employee, per month by failing to upgrade their Excel workflows. SUMMARY: Excel scutwork—manual Excel reporting—is a significant drain on your company’s time, talent, and strategic potential. It traps professionals stuck in low-value tasks that stall progress, bury insight, and burn out Excel users and their managers. This…
SUMMARY: According to ChatGPT, companies suffer from ten persistent problems with Excel. An all-Excel strategy—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot—solves all of them by standardizing workbook design, flowing data smoothly from sources to outputs, and automating repetitive tasks without using a programming language. The result? Ultra-productive Excel users who deliver agile, insightful, and manager-delighting business…
SUMMARY: McKinsey outlines a new model built on speed, decentralization, and frontline initiative. An all-Excel strategy—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot—delivers the infrastructure to make that model work—turning Excel from a bottleneck into a strategic engine. It empowers teams, streamlines coordination, and accelerates decision-making with modular workflows and AI-assisted insight. Here’s an introduction to the…
SUMMARY: An all-Excel strategy—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot—transforms Excel from a time-consuming tool into a nimble platform. It does so by introducing modular Excel flowbooks, rapid iteration, and GenAI-supported workflows. It empowers users to adapt across time, topics, and tasks with minimal rework. This unlocks fast, flexible, and resilient reporting that thrives amid volatility….
SUMMARY: An all-Excel strategy—with help from ChatGPT or Copilot—can give Excel users the power to accelerate their finance careers by treating spreadsheets as strategic tools, not just reporting platforms. By proactively leading projects—such as crafting board‑ready dashboards, modeling capital decisions, and collaborating cross‑functionally—you can build CFO‑level skills. Using generative AI for analysis, commentary, and storytelling…