Become a PowerPoint Guru by Dave Tracy
Learn the methodologies, frameworks, and tricks used by Management Consultants to create executive presentations in the business world.
Project Management can be a headache. It involves keeping track of deadlines, status updates, risks, urgent issues, resources, timelines, competing priorities, budgets, among other things.
Microsoft Project is the software used by most project managers. Unfortunately, MS Project is difficult software to work with, due to its slow speed, lack of compatibility with other Office products, and poor user interface.
This past week, an Excel-based Project Management Tool has been released on Flevy. This new Excel project management model presents numerous benefits over MS Project. It’s a better and easier way of performing the cumbersome task of project management.
The creator of the tool is a seasoned consultant from a Big 4 consulting firm. He states that “about a year ago, I got so frustrated with Microsoft Project, I decided to start working with Excel. It more than sufficiently satisfies the basic requirements of any project management tool. Excel is also far more customizable and compatible than Microsoft Project, allowing me to build reports and share my work more easily with others.”
View and download the tool here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Project-Management-Tool-in-Excel-212
This model has the following features:
- Overview of a project management framework used by top tier consulting firms.
- The ability to document and connect requirements, projects, and tasks.
- Fully functional and automatic Gantt Chart.
- Built in program level completion and heat map reporting functionality.
It can be said the biggest benefit of this Excel project management tool over Microsoft Project is the ability to fully customize the Excel model to fit any project’s specific needs.
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OE Consulting has just uploaded a new document on Flevy that’s a collection of PowerPoint templates illustrating 25 different Business Performance Improvement models and frameworks. Check it out here:
The 25 business models are:
- ISO 9001 Quality Management Model
- Baldrige Performance Excellence Model
- EFQM Business Excellence Model
- Balanced Scorecard
- Benchmarking Model
- Lean Management Model (TPS)
- Lean Leadership & Kaizen Model
- Value Stream Mapping
- Eight Types of Waste
- Lean Levers
- Gemba Framework
- Cause & Effect Diagram
- 5S Principles
- Plan-Do-Check-Act Model
- PDCA Problem Solving Process
- Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Pillars
- DMAIC Process Improvement Model
- Law of 10
- Training Within Industry (TWI)
- A3 Storyboard Template
- PACE Prioritization Matrix
- Payoff Evaluation Matrix
- Cost of Quality Model
- SERVQUAL Model
- Change Management Model
Over the past week or so, a ton of new PowerPoint templates and diagrams have been to Flevy. Here they are:
- Puzzles
- Gears
- Venn Diagrams
- Yin Yang
- Spring Coils
- Transformation Maps
- Pyramids
- Processes & Flow Charts
- Maps
- Light Bulbs
- Labyrinths
- Globes & World Maps
- Curves
- Chess & Games
- Blocks
- Flags
Flevy is a marketplace for business documents, including a plethora of PowerPoint templates. Here is their full library: https://flevy.com/function/PowerPoint-Templates-ppt
Other documents include business frameworks/guides, financial models, and presentation templates.
Over the past couple weeks, a ton of new business frameworks, covering topics from the 5S framework to Kaizen principles to benchmarking, have been added to Flevy. Flevy is a marketplace of premium business documents, which include business frameworks, financial models, PowerPoint templates, market research reports, and other similar documents.
This presentation deck covers the benefits of benchmarking, various types of benchmarking, identifying what to benchmark, and provides a detailed step by step guidance on how to systematically carry out a benchmarking project based on the world-renown Xerox benchmarking model. It also includes useful tips on benchmarking, benchmarking etiquettes and the critical success factors.
Hoshin Kanri ( Policy Deployment or Hoshin Planning) is a powerful, systematic Strategic Planning methodology that uses a Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle to create goals, choose control measures and link daily control activities to the company’s strategy.
In this training presentation, you will be able to teach employees on the structured Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) approach to problem solving. Many world class companies such as Toyota uses the PDCA problem solving process for relentless pursuit of continuous improvement.
“Lean” is a management philosophy based on the Toyota Production System (TPS). With Lean Thinking, you will be able to enhance value for your customers by improving and smoothing the process flow and eliminating waste. Simply put, with Lean, you will be able to increase productivity and create greater customer value with less resources.
Strategic principles allow organizations to make decentralized decisions while maintaining cohesive strategic action. This document explains the strategic principle framework, including examples, defining attributes, relevant crucial situations, and an approach to strategic principle development.
Six Sigma provides a rigorous and structured approach to help organizations improve their performance in meeting their customers’ requirements. This training presentation introduces you to the Six Sigma philosophy, methodology and tools and the infrastructure for successful Six Sigma deployment without too much of statistical jargon.
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) maximizes the effectiveness of equipment. This presentation on Total Productive Maintenance combines the TPM tools, 5S, OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness), 8 pillars, Autonomous and Planned maintenance into a highly detailed training tool. This PowerPoint includes a step-by-step implementation process of TPM.
Every organization depends on customer service. When you equip your frontline staff with the skills to create a quality experience for your customers, you enhance customer satisfaction and your organization’s image. In this customer service powerpoint, you teach your staff to manage emotions and deliver professional and personalized service.
This training presentation is specially designed for managers, supervisors, facilitators and continuous improvement steering committees who want to kick-start and implement Kaizen activities in their work areas to improve productivity and customer value.
This training fits well into any improvement initiative, including TQM and Lean management. The COQ methodology instills a practical approach to quantifying the financial impact of the Cost Of Non-Conformance (CONC) and the Cost Of Conformance (COC).
Developing and presenting a business plan is something most of us will do at some point in our business life. If you are good at doing it you are more likely to be successful at raising finance. This is an easy to follow guide that will give you the right attitude and approach to developing and presenting your business plan.
The 5S workplace organization system applies a set of basic management principles that many companies widely adopt to maximize productivity and organization. As a cornerstone of Lean management, 5S improves workplace morale, safety and efficiency.
This presentation provides a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for your office. You will learn how to mobilize and align your management team to launch or improve 5S in your office. The presentation covers 5S and Visual Management key concepts, best practices, step-by-step implementation guidance, and the best ways to integrate 5S into the organization’s culture to achieve sustainable world-class excellence.
Most companies are yet to reach their full potential because Human Resources is yet to reach a strategic level of contribution. This PowerPoint presentation shows how to transform Human Resources from a staff function to a strategic business partnership.
This document outlines a 3-phase framework for conducting robust Strategic Analysis, based on a paper published by A. E. Boardman and A. R. Vining. The framework describes the major elements of a strategic analysis, and consists of a logically-sequenced, coherent skeleton of a comprehensive strategic analysis.
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a holistic approach to long-term success that views continuous improvement in all aspects of an organization as a process and not as a short-term goal. This training presentation includes quality philosophies from key quality leaders such as W. E. Deming, J. M. Juran and Philip Crosby, and provides a summary of process management, steps for TQM implementation, key tools and techniques for total quality as well as the key business excellence and quality management models.
No doubt, employees bestow many improvement ideas. If you don’t have a formal system to collect and evaluate the ideas, you will lose them. These ideas can save you money, grow your business, and affect your overall bottom line. This formal system details the phases of collecting, evaluating, implementing and rewarding good ideas.
This presentation explores the basics of social media and how to select the right social networks, social media branding, social media marketing, social media optimization, how to build and manage your following. This course has been taught at Rutgers University and numerous professional conferences around the country.
The ISO 9001 standard is increasingly being adopted by many organizations world-wide. Whether you are conducting an internal quality audit in your organization or preparing for an external audit, it is important that the auditing process is thorough, systematic and effective.
OHSAS 18001 is a global occupational health and safety management system which is adopted in thousands of companies all over the world, and many more are in the process of doing so. One of the reasons for its wide adoption is because it reduces work-related accidents and ill-health and costs associated with them.
ISO 14001 is a global environmental management system which is adopted by thousands of companies all over the world. The intent of ISO 14001 is to provide a framework for a holistic, strategic approach to an organization’s environmental policy, plans and actions.
Thousands of companies in over 100 countries have adopted ISO 9001 as their quality management standard. Many more are pursuing this certification. ISO 9001 helps your company assure quality, save money and customers expect it. ISO 9001 applies to all types of organizations.
This is a case study presentation on the value of global diversification.
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Flevy.com just introduced its free PowerPoint Plugin, Flevy Tools. Flevy Tools provides a set of diagramming tools for PowerPoint. With just a few clicks, you can create and customize the following types of commonly used consulting diagrams:
- Approach Diagrams
- Step Box Diagrams
- Gantt Charts
- Harvey Ball Diagrams
The plugin is available in 2 versions: 1) MS PowerPoint 2003 and 2) MS PowerPoint 2007 and later. You can download the plugin here:
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PPT Lab‘s latest PowerPoint to its community is a collection of 23 business frameworks and management models. Have a look below.
Here is the full list of management models:
- 3 C’s
- ADL Matrix
- Acquisitions Integration Approaches
- Blue Ocean Strategy
- Capability Maturity Model
- GE-McKinsey Matrix
- OODA Loop
- Profit Pools
- Resource-based View of Firm
- Scenario Planning
- Strategy Maps
- Application Portfolio Optimization
- Value Stream Mapping
- Six Thinking Hats
- 4 P’s Marketing Mix
- 7 P’s Marketing Mix
- 6 Change Approaches
- Cultural Dimensions Theory
- Six Sigma Quality Management
- Change Management Iceberg
- Organizational Learning
- Performance Prism
- Crossing the Chasm (Product Lifecycle)
PPT Lab is a subscription-based service for slide design. They create 50+ slides each month for its subscribers at a low monthly cost. All presentations are based on projects requested and voted on by its members.
This is an exciting announcement. PPT Lab (www.pptlab.com), a subscription-based business presentation service, has just launched.
Each month, PPT Lab will create well over 50+ consulting-quality slides for members. As a member, you will drive what business slides created. Here’s the process:
- Members submit presentation projects.
- Other members can vote for existing projects.
- PPT Lab will create presentations based on total number of votes. The more votes a project receives, the higher priority it receives. The design team will continue to build presentations until we have created over 50+ slides.
All created business presentations are made available for download to all members. All presentations will be created by a team of management consultants and follow the Consulting Presentation Framework. This is the same slide design framework used on all slides showcased in our tutorials.
For a limited time, Flevy is offering a FREE download of the Strategy Development Discussion Deck. To download this document, just go here:
This is a discussion deck template for a corporate strategy development session. In this discussion, we go through a 2-prong approach to growth and evaluate the merits of various growth drivers. From the 2-prong approach, various scenarios can be generated in the discussions and dashboards are used to evaluate each scenario.
You can find more details about the product (listed at $30) here:
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Strategy-Development-Discussion-Deck-91
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We are contemplating launching a subscription-based business presentation service and would love to get your thoughts first.
Here’s our idea.
Each month, we will be creating 100+ slides for our members. As a member, you will help decide what business slides we create. Members can submit presentation requests AND upvote other members’ requests. We will then prioritize presentation requests based on number of votes.
All created business presentations are made available for download to all members. Our presentations will follow the Consulting Presentation Framework. Check out these tutorials to gain a sense for the Consulting Presentation Framework:
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Having a pre-built financial model for reference can save you countless days–if not weeks!–of work. In this article, we’ve compiled an extensive list of financial models available on Flevy, the marketplace for premium business documents.
FEATURED MODEL
(World’s First!) Research Report-cum-Financial Model
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Research-Report-cum-Financial-Model-121
This is a impressive and innovative financial model developed by an independent financial research firm. The first model that combines both a research report and financial model, this document contains a wealth of information about commodity futures exchanges as an industry, the regulatory environment in India, trading volumes, business model, strengths, financials and earnings estimates of MCX, and global peer financial highlights and valuations
VALUATION MODELS
Below, are 4 valuation models for various industries and firms.
Manufacturer Valuation Model
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Excel-Model-for-Manufacturing-Firm-120
Commercial Bank Valuation Model
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Excel-Model-for-Banking–119
LBO Models
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Sample-LBO-Model-Template-26
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Sample-LBO-Model-Template-2-27
(This second one also contains a blank LBO model template.)
MODELS USEFUL TO MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS
Consulting Ratios Calculator
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Consulting-Ratios-Calculator-77
Consulting Fee Setting Matrix
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Consultant-Fee-Setting-Matrix-9
Scatterplot Labeler Template
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Scatter-plot-Labeler-Template-8
TIME & EXPENSE TRACKING MODELS
Staff Demand and Shift Bidding
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Staff-Demand-and-Shift-Bidding-19
Working Hours Diary with Lunch
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Working-Hours-Diary-with-Lunch-112
Vacation Schedule/Tracker
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Vacation-Schedule-Tracker-116
Travel Expenses Diary
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Travel-Expenses-Diary-111
Labor Costs Diary
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Labor-Costs-Diary-106
OTHER FINANCIAL MODELS
Compounded Annual Stock Return Calculator
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Compounded-Annual-Stock-Return-Calculator-109
Supply Chain Program Comparison Model (Working Capital)
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Supply-Chain-Program-Comparison-Model-34
Cash Flow Projector
https://flevy.com/browse/business-document/Cash-Flow-Projector-104
For even more financial models, you can peruse the Excel documents section of Flevy. There are about 30 Excel models and spreadsheets currently on the marketplace (with more being added each week).
Last but not least, here are 2 of our best selling LearnPPT toolkits–both with financial models included in the package.
Business Case Development Toolkit
http://learnppt.com/powerpoint/58_Business-Case-Development-Toolkit-with-Excel-model.php
Pricing Strategy Toolkit
http://learnppt.com/powerpoint/65_Pricing-Strategy-Toolkit-with-Excel-Model.php
Questions, thoughts, concerns? Go to my site (learnppt.com) and shoot me an email.
For pre-made PowerPoint diagrams used in business presentations and other powerpointing needs, browse our library here: learnppt.com/powerpoint/. These diagrams were professionally designed by management consultants. Give your presentations the look and feel of a final product made by McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Booz Allen, Deloitte, or any of the top consulting firms.
