Question for MBAs
By Chandoo at 11 July, 2007, 6:47 am | 0 Comments
Imagine this:
You have an important client presentation day after tomorrow. You are going to demonstrate one of your company’s products and convince the client to use it in her upcoming project. Now suddenly you realized that the product has a feature that you cannot understand, like an excel import feature which is not working since [...]
The Art of Excel Charting
By Chandoo at 27 June, 2007, 8:10 am | 3 Comments
Yesterday while going through my feeds, I have landed on this post about the demographics and use-figures of various social networking (2.0) tools, et al (by businessweek) on think:lab blog. When I looked at the BusinessWeek’s graphical representation of demographics and usage figures of social networks, the first thought that came to me is, “well, [...]
Read More >>The problem with B-schools
By Chandoo at 26 March, 2007, 8:55 am | 0 Comments
The problem with (B) Schools is that, they grade you. You are A-pos or A or A Neg or B Pos or so on. The grading starts right from the first day first presentation, quiz, assigment, case study, cp and goes on till you leave the campus with all your bags.
So much that RG (relative [...]
Say NO to Default Charts Forever!
or Excel Charting Hacks # 2Roughly 35-40% of my working time in office is spent with powerpoint. As one of my mentors said, powerpoint gives neither the power nor the point. Apart from writing truck loads of bullet points and using auto shapes, I also work alot with numbers and charts. Obviously I resort to [...]
Read More >>You Know …
By Chandoo at 28 September, 2006, 10:21 am | 0 Comments
… That You Are Making Too Many Presentations When You Write A Blog Post Like This.
Read More >>3 Steps to Create cool dashboards in excel
By Chandoo at 5 September, 2006, 1:02 am | 2 Comments
Dashboards are very common business monitoring tools, but creating them in excel with all the bells and whistles is not so easy. So here is a quick 1-2-3 on how to do it.
Lets take a sample of 2 consecutive year sales figures for 7 regions. The colums have Region name, 2004-05, 2005-06 figures and finally [...]
9 sureshot ways to kill your audience using powerpoint
By Chandoo at 7 February, 2006, 5:18 am | 0 Comments
Lately I have been attending campus pre-placement talks by various leading companies in India. It would suffice to say that I have attended over half-a-hundred presentations of companies “trying to sell themselves” to us. Some of them were really good, and then some of them are so pathetic that it made me feel sorry about [...]
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