It’s usually around this time of year that the panic starts in offices everywhere.
It often begins with “We need a clean list of contact information for the annual mailing”, and is just as often followed by an inordinate amount of stress on the part of the person who’s responsible for compiling the list.
The trouble spot, […]

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I remember it like it was just yesterday. It was February 2005, and I was in a conference room in a hotel in Las Vegas, giving an hour long introductory Monarch presentation to a room of some twenty accountants and controllers. I started my talk with the words “I love Monarch”. That’s when the whole […]

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Not every process improvement task that you undertake needs to take weeks or months to accomplish. Sometimes you can genuinely produce terrific long term benefits in mere minutes.
I was recently approached by someone began the conversation by saying that he needed my help to “automate a report update with some programming”.
He had been manually updating […]

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