Finally, after fighting with all kinds of time consuming and cumbersome techniques and approaches to acquiring data, one day you discovered Monarch. Maybe someone pointed it out to you, or maybe you found it on the Internet. Maybe you, like me, started working at a company that was using Monarch to accomplish some basic extracts.
When you found Monarch, you saw that you’d be able to regain control of your data, instead of your data being in control of you. No longer would you need to spend stressful hours just trying to get what you need, only to do it all over again the next day, week, or month. No longer would you have to accept the status quo, being able to only use what little information was supplied and packaged for you. Previously, you’d accomplished much of what you’ve being able to do in a very procedural manner, and Monarch seemed to operate in similar way.
With this new tool you’d be able to supply your organization with actionable data captured from the never ending stream of reports and other data sources. You’d be able to build a few models and then you’d be able to better use your data.
You’ve always been an organized person, and it looked like Monarch would fit nicely with the way that you work, what with its systematic approach to extracting and aggregating data.
In the past you’d worked through complexities and various rules. You’d always been good with the details and technicalities, so you thought that it should be easy to get up to speed quickly on your own with this new Monarch thing.
Did Learning Monarch Become More Challenging than You Anticipated?
So after a little while spent tinkering and experimenting, you started to do some pretty amazing things with the software. As you began to learn how it works, you saw many options and buttons and features that the program offered, but you weren’t certain what they did, or how you could take full advantage of them.
In fact, the longer that you worked with it, the more you realized that while it was easy to get started, it can be quite challenging to learn how to control the full feature set of this tool. With so many options and features, and it didn’t take long for you to believe that its flexibility and reasonably simple interface masks its complexity and a pretty steep learning curve that would, in all likelihood, take some time to master.
Additionally, you might have realized that there was a lot more that you or your company could be doing with it, but nobody, including you, knew how to do it. There was a lot of what was, at first at least, pretty unfamiliar terminology there too if you were new to this sort of thing.
But you knew how to do what you needed to do that day, and the other possibilities could wait for another day. After all, that was good enough.
What happened? Inevitably, “another day” didn’t come around, because you were so busy doing what you needed to do day in and day out that there was no time to learn Monarch completely.
No time to learn how to get to that next level. No time to determine how to use Monarch to get ahead of the game and move ahead from only using it for simple data extractions. There’s certainly no time to take courses, never mind their cost of those courses or the required travel (for either you or your team).
It seems that each time that you got past one brick wall, you encountered another.
So for months, or longer, you ticked along just scratching the surface of what you (or your team) could really have been accomplishing. The worst situation was when you realized what was happening and that it was not going to improve on its own.
But do you ever really settle for “good enough”? I don’t believe that you do, or you wouldn’t be reading this now.
Maximize Your Potential
What if you could learn the about best ways to use Monarch on your own time, anywhere you want, and at a reasonable price?
How would being the “best” in your group to handle any data challenge benefit you? Could your role change? Could other opportunities open up for you? Do you want to be a “staff member”, or an “impact player”?
If you’re looking at from the business’s point of view, did you really make such a significant investment in the software and just have the people who use it, when they do use it, just be “functional”? Was that really the goal when you decided to make Monarch part of your information system and business intelligence solution?
It took me months, really a couple of years, if I’m honest with you, to get a handle on what I could really accomplish with Monarch. That doesn’t have to happen to you, or your organization.
In fact, I’m now prepared to guarantee that you don’t find yourself in the same situation.
Return here tomorrow and learn how, in 30 days or less, to not just be functional, but to really excel with Monarch.
