Consulting Trail

Consultants will confirm that Excel and PowerPoint are the two main software solutions used in almost every project. In fact, PowerPoint and Excel have plugins which can improve your performance at work. PowerPoint ThinkCell Efficient Elements iSlide Flevy Power-user MLC PowerPoint Addin Office Timeline Excel Ablebits.com Excel add-in ASAP Utilities OpenSolver XY Chart Labeler Chart-Me The waterfall chart creator Peltier Tech Charts Others Evernote OneNote Power BI PowerPoint ThinkCell (Paid) If I had to chose only one plug-in to use among all others in my projects, I will pick ThinkCell. It's the add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint to create data-heavy presentations based on charts/diagrams. ThinkCell allows you to create complex charts and layouts, including Waterfall, Gantt and Marimekko charts, as well as process flows. It's estimated that ThinkCell saves you 70% of the time when working on charts. It also has other useful features e.g. ...

Consulting makes you love data. You will need as a consultant to gather data from different datasources and then try to make sense of them. Your client is often the main source of data, but it's possible that you will need to gather more information from other sources for benchmarking or other research activities. In fact, big consulting firms constantly invest large amounts of money gathering data, which is not always possible for smaller consultancies or independent consultants. This is why I am sharing with you in this article few of my favorite free data sources I often use for my projects. World Bank Open Data The world bank open data portal should be the the first stop for every consultant or researcher looking for financial and economical data about a country. Many of the projects I have been working on are in the government and public sector, and the economies I am usually studying or analyzing are developing countries without sufficient available data online. ...