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

The High Opportunity Cost of Doing Excel Scutwork

ByCharley Kyd

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…

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

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

ByCharley Kyd

SUMMARY: Excel users in the AI era must evolve from task-doers to insight accelerators—with an AI-assisted, all-Excel strategy. By automating data pipelines—creating flowbooks with Power Query and integrating AI—they eliminate busywork and focus on deep analysis, cross-system collaboration, and strategic problem-solving. This new paradigm shifts ROI from spreadsheet volume to decision quality, turning Excel professionals into…