How CRE agents can use Excel to work efficiently in 2021

Key quotes:

• "A launch team is beneficial for a book, a new sandwich on a deli menu, or even a new shoe from a multi-billion-dollar sneaker company."
• "Having a launch team was more beneficial than the idea itself."
• "A launch team makes others a vital part of the success of your product or business."
• "Then I reached out to each person individually, telling them about the product, the launch, the launch team, and asking them for their email address."
• "I finally scheduled six emails for the week of the launch."
• "One email per day, with one very simple task they were asked to complete."

Key quotes:

• "And, more importantly, how technology can create jobs and amplify human jobs."
• "In this case, robots are directly replacing humans in the spirit of efficiency and productivity."
• "The key for would-be employees has always been to identify job categories where technology generates more demand for human workers."
• "In this case, technology creates toolsets for employees do their jobs better."
• "Stitchfix is an example of a company that relies heavily on both human talent and technology support."
• "AI technologies empower these human employees, giving them the tools to do their best."

Key quotes:

• "But when it comes to hiring for skill-based roles like a service desk analyst, the interview becomes an artform."
• "In other words, in service desk roles, talking the talk is much less important — candidates must show they can perform the task and do so with skill and expertise."
• "Conduct an Initial Phone Interview In-person interviews might be preferable for many other roles, but when it comes to hiring a service desk analyst, there is no better option than a phone interview — especially right off the bat."
• "Stacy Gianoulis also highlights that phone interviews are a great way to lower the initial time investment when vetting candidates, allowing your hiring team to more quickly screen and assess individuals."
• "After the role-play scenario ends, take time to review the results with the candidate."
• "Then, based on your assessment of the role play, provide the candidate with feedback."

Key quotes:

• "Underscoring the urgency, here are a few assumptions from technology research firm Gartner’s Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2019[i]: “By 2021, organizations that bypass privacy requirements and are caught lacking in privacy protection will pay 100% more in compliance cost than competitors that adhere to best practices.” “By 2022, at least 40% of new application development projects will have artificial intelligence co-developers on the team.” “By 2023, 20% of organizations will be budgeting for quantum computing projects, compared to less than 1% in 2018.” These assumptions have implications that can affect your business faster than you might think."
• "Thanks to recent advancements in cloud computing technology, you now have access to highly secure data centers at companies like Microsoft and Google for a fraction of the cost of maintaining a data storage server at your office."
• "If your company files are centralized and stored on Microsoft’s cloud servers, each person on your team can use their local, powerful Word, Excel or Powerpoint applications to edit the same document at the same time."

Key quotes:

• "For a given wind energy project, the modeller carrying out the wind resource assessment is faced with a difficult choice of a wide range of simulation tools with varying accuracies and costs."
• "In recent work, a new method for estimating the skill and cost scores of different wind modelling tools for a given project has been developed and applied to a range of tools for the Bolund Hill experiment by comparing predicted skill and cost scores (estimated before carrying out the simulations) to the actual skill and cost scores (established after carrying out the simulations)."
• "In order to achieve this, this new public simulation challenge has been designed, which involves collecting a wide range of data for developing project-specific transfer functions between the predicted and actual cost and skill scores."
• "The goal of Stage 1 of this challenge is to collect comparison metrics data regarding the skill and cost scores of a range of different simulation tools for the Perdigão site in Portugal, both before and after carrying out the simulations."