Alixandra Maëlie. Spreadsheet. September 13th , 2021.
The second wall that hinders a small company’s growth is similar but another rung up the ladder. The system that supported five people is starting to break down under the strain of 30 people. A new type of thinking must be applied to streamline the company’s operations and automate them - again. This time, the system will be larger, will take longer to design (or purchase), and cause more of a disruption in company operations when it is implemented. What happens internally when a system no longer meets the needs of the busy employees? They start creating workarounds to get their job done. And often their solutions involve spreadsheets. And so, the spreadsheet culture is reborn and the cycle begins again.
Is your job dealing with more and more paper work all the time? If you are an office clerk or reports assistant or even if you are a manager you will have to send reports on a monthly basis and more often they will have to do with comparing old and new files as well as updating them. To compare spreadsheet reports, you will have to understand the values being given and consolidate it with any changes made for a certain period of time. If you will be dealing with several files here to compare, you may find this a very daunting task. However, knowing that there is a tool you can use to make this task easier for you is a great relief.
Many people don’t realize how functional a spreadsheet can really be and what a program like Microsoft Excel can bring you. Professionally, there are plenty of options available to you depending on your line of work, and the types of data you have to utilize with your job functions. Everything from call sheets that can be highlighted and edited on the fly to database information and management of assets can all be handled through a properly laid out spreadsheet. Many people don’t have a true working understanding of Excel and, due to this, aren’t able to fully utilize all of the functions it can offer you.
There are many such forms that will help you plan and organize your life. The monthly budget spreadsheet is another example of a spreadsheet that will help you to organize your budget for the month. At the end of the month you can go through these spreadsheets and analyze as to what is eating up most of your expenses. This can help you to plan and save on the budget for the next month onwards.
You may notice that you do not utilize Excel very often in your current job. This is usually due to the lack of a fundamental understanding about the program at the office level. When you gain better skills, you may even be able to help your entire department become more productive, not just yourself. You will be able to introduce others to key functions of the program that most people didn’t even know existed. And if you want to go to the next level, you can earn your MCAS - Microsoft Certified Application Specialist - in Excel 2007, which will show your employer that your skills have been validated by Microsoft.
Third, building the right kinds of collaborative applications requires some skill and understanding how and what kinds of data are shared. How many people are going to be adding/changing records to your database? How many just want to do queries and reports? And how do you prevent conflicting updates?
When a team of people reaches this point - whether they are a small company or a department within a larger enterprise - they need a central collaboration solution built. They may be able to buy it or they may have to build one, depending on their specific needs. But the pain of trying to collaborate is now so high that they are suffocating - a significant growth bottleneck has set in.
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