BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation

A useful summary/introduction to BPMN useful for anyone creating process maps: Lucid charts

The link is provided by Lucid Charts who provide cloud based diagram software.  It's really good for process maps and mind maps.

Economic briefing 11 Jul 16 HSBC

Mind map of notes from web cast

Effective apologies: handy for reference for when it all goes wrong

Article containing a handy check list based on research from Negotiation and Conflict Management Research journal.

What's new in Excel 2016 for Windows - Excel

Lots of new toys here.  IFS looks especially useful.  What's new in Excel 2016 for Windows - Excel:



'via Blog this'

Useful article for brushing up on Excel sums and sumifs

The reminder about being able to use wildcards in sumifs became useful within a week of reading the article.  http://itsnotaboutthecell.com/2016/02/16/500-days-of-sumsumifs/

Using Excel to rank excluding duplicates

Purpose: when there is a field containing text values, with some blanks, rank the values but exclude duplicates and blanks.

Link to example spreadsheet

Passing off

Brushed up on Passing off  (thanks Wikipedia): "The law of passing off prevents one trader from misrepresenting goods or services as being the goods and services of another, and also prevents a trader from holding out his or her goods or services as having some association or connection with another when this is not true."