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VLOOKUP Using Tables in Excel
Tables in Excel could be leveraged to overcome VLOOKUP common mistakes and provide more accurate and reliable results.
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Excel Tip: Count a Weekday between Two Dates
How many Sundays are there between 2/19 and 5/22/2022? Have you ever been faced with such a question during one of your data analysis tasks? Unfortunately, there’s no native function…
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Cost of Poor Quality: A Silent Killer in the Organization’s Body
Boosting product or service offering with optimized cost is a strategic objective of most manufacturing and service industries in the world. Nevertheless, tactics to achieve this objective range from shortsighted…
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Hunting High and Low for Quick Wins Using Kaizen Blitz
Traditional continuous improvement projects are sometimes doomed due to several avoidable reasons. Besides, the ever-increasing pace of change in the business environment necessitates acquiring a new way of thinking. Hence, Kaizen Blitz has become of paramount importance in the process improvement profession.
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Waste Elimination by Leveraging the Seven M’s of Management
Rooting out processes or system wastes along with their causes is a key step for effective fat-to-lean transformation endeavor. A handful of Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tools can be used…
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DOWNTIME: The Eight Types of Waste
For an organization to transform into a lean state it should trim wasteful processes. Waste is anything that does not add value to the product or service. Luckily, the eight types of Waste can be combined in one acronym-DOWNTIME.
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The State of Being Lean or Fat is a Matter of Your Own Choice
Lean is a culture and way of life rather than being a methodology. And the recipe for a successful transformation hinges on root cause analysis, sustainability, and continuous improvement. At the end, being lean or fat for an organization is an outcome of its own internal practices.
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Converting Numbers to Words in Microsoft Office Excel
The process of converting numbers to words is indispensable in the finance/accounting sections of any organization. Yet, it is cumbersome and time-consuming especially when you have scores of transactions to…
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Eight Steps to Define the Vision of a Software Development Project
During the early days of a project, the project team needs to have a 'compass' guiding to the effective and efficient achievement of project objectives. It is imperative to create…
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Using the PDCA Cycle to Leverage Your Personal Effectiveness
Every person has a mission in his life, whether explicit or implicit, structured or disorganized. Successful people state their missions explicitly. They strive to achieve them through systematic planning, doing,…