Help Save the Environment with Monarch and Excel

The Green Butterfly

Unless you’ve been taking “environmentally friendly” to the extreme and you’ve been living under a rock, you know about global warming. We only have one planet. Shouldn’t we be doing all we can to protect it?

For years there’s been discussion about the paperless office, wherein everything is electronic. Yes, electricity has its own environmental impact, but it is arguably easier to manage. You can turn your devices off, or better yet, completely unplug them. However, our paper consumption continues to have a huge impact on our planet.

If your organization regularly prints a lot of reports, think about how much paper you’ll use in a year, two years, even five years. Now I’m realistic. I know you can’t stop all of it. But you can slash your needs, at least insofar as the printing of your reporting requirements and of the raw data that is required to get you to your final report presentations.

Companies still have staff print huge reports, then separate sections of the report to be distributed to various individuals, often by courier. All of this at tremendous expense and possibly with even more negative environmental impact, not to mention the delays and other problems incurred in simply attempting to get the right information to the right person.

By using Monarch and Excel wisely, you can encapsulate the details, and only print summaries. Not everyone needs all of the details printed.

As you’re building those summaries, odds are that along the way you’ll also find that working with electronic data as much as possible is far more efficient and productive that working with paper reports.

You’ll find that needle in a haystack in seconds instead of hours. Your accuracy will skyrocket. You’ll find ways to add value to your existing reports without any custom programming.

You may even find that you’ve built the foundations required for new business intelligence tools that’ll help you manage the organization better than many other third party tools, because they’ll have exactly the content your organization needs. Never mind that your organization will not need to take a potentially huge risk by implementing BI software that might well be too difficult, too expensive, and simply might not even help achieve the results you’re after.

Sounds like a win-win situation to me.

Start thinking about what your organization does and does not need to have printed. You’ll soon find that not only will you “go green” but you’ll save some green too. Simultaneously enhance both your bottom line and the planet and you’ll be very happy that you’ve chosen to excel with Monarch.