By Hiran de Silva Some of the best questions in business are also the simplest. At WSP, my sponsor Tom Bower had a favourite expression: “Why can’t...
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By Hiran de Silva Recently, Mynda Treacy shared an excellent video that demonstrates how to bring a degree of database-style thinking into Excel. The...
By Hiran de Silva When it comes to Excel education, there are two pyramids we need to talk about. One is widely shared and often celebrated. The...
By Hiran de Silva For decades, Excel has been viewed as “just a spreadsheet.” Yet in the right hands, it can behave like something far more powerful:...
Hiran de Silva The setting: February 1997, Edexcel, London.Edexcel had just been formed from the merger of two major exam bodies. The accounting...
Hiran de Silva This explainer is inspired by an ongoing debate with Christopher T Fennell on LinkedIn, who portrays Power Query as a database to...
By Hiran de Silva This is a demonstration of a topic that often comes up in discussions with Peter Bartholomew. It’s designed as an explainer for...
By Hiran de Silva The words legacy and obsolete carry an air of dismissal. Legacy suggests we tolerate something old until it can be replaced...
By Hiran de Silva. Inspired by a LinkedIn post by George Mount. For more than a decade, social media has been flooded with “Excel tips,” “shiny new...
By Hiran de Silva As Microsoft Excel turns 40 this month, it’s remarkable how the world’s most widely used business tool still attracts an endless...