Drive your business with a dashboard in Excel

Drive your business with a management dashboard

Drive your business with a management dashboard

  • What if there is a dashboard that puts you in the driver seat of your business instead of being drowned by numbers?
  • What if you can understand in a glance all the key business drivers of your business operation?
  • What if you have total control of the publishing process using a spreadsheet instead of a $10,000 reporting software?

These are the key questions that I asked myself before deciding to create such a training program.  The questions lead to a logical answer: Why not create dashboards in Microsoft Excel?  Microsoft Excel is rich in database features and its easy to create charts in worksheets.  Excel simply has a lot of untapped potential for applications and it seemed like a perfect platform to create management dashboards.

Learn more about Creating Dashboards in Excel.

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