Are you working as a temp, hired for basic Excel tasks–cleaning up messy spreadsheets, doing tedious, repetitive work no one wants to do? Imagine...
In this article, I’ll demonstrate how a single sheet in an Excel workbook can outshine even the most sophisticated ERP systems and cloud-based FP&A tools currently...
The idea of tripling your pay with Excel is not clickbait or snake oil; it’s a proven reality that you can verify yourself. If you’re one of the billion Excel...
When discussing the value of advanced Excel skills, it’s essential to ground the conversation in evidence: not just theory or popularity, but measurable, real-world...
Why does Excel cause so much pain in Finance? By Hiran de Silva Most people think of a spreadsheet as a document. And they think of Excel as a document editor. That...
By Hiran de Silva So far… …our imaginary motorway has been at a standstill. You’re sitting in your family car. Three helicopter salesmen are...
By Hiran de Silva There is one important clarification to the Helicopter Salesman analogy. When I say that the ordinary family car has had a hidden switch for thirty...
By Hiran de Silva Imagine you’re sitting in your car. You’re late. Traffic is at a standstill. The motorway is gridlocked, the sat-nav estimates keep getting...
Why I’ve Changed My Mind About Thirty Years of Arguing with the Excel Replacement Industry By Hiran de Silva For almost thirty years I have been fighting what I...
Why so many technology products are marketed by attacking a problem they never properly define By Hiran de Silva For more than twenty years I’ve noticed an...
By Hiran de Silva For well over a decade, one of the most widely quoted pieces of marketing in the enterprise planning industry has been Workday Adaptive...
By Hiran de Silva For the past few years I’ve been talking about what I call Global Excel. Usually I explain it by comparing two fundamentally different ways of...
The Introduction to a Collection By Hiran de Silva Every so often a spreadsheet challenge appears that turns out to be about much more than the spreadsheet itself. This...
By Hiran de Silva One of the simplest questions we can ask about any Excel solution is also one of the most revealing. Can you explain it to the client? Not to another...