The Improvement Project List Spreadsheet is a great tool for tracking your continuous improvement projects to completion. It helps you to categorize your projects by status and communicate the financial impact of each project. Use this tool to do the following things: Allocate a status to each project: Completed, In Progress, On Hold, Not Started, and Forgone. Allocate a initiation/due date, owner, cost, savings amount, and comments to each project Automatically shows a summary of projects by category Filter your list by any category...
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Projects, Issues and Tasks, Performance Measurement

Use this spreadsheet to track, evaluate, and priortize the ideas generated through brainstorming or any other means of recognizing opportunities. After you have performed the crucial step of generating ideas as part of the continuous improvement process, you will need a system of evaluating those ideas. This spreadsheet helps you to clearly outline what your values are as an organization and then evaluate each idea against those values. Use this spreadsheet to do the following: Input the core and other organizational...
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Projects, Issues and Tasks, Performance Measurement

A tool for quick and easy management of risks through a single user form and automated risk register. The tool enables the effective identification, analysis and treatment of risks. The tool is based on tried and tested risk management methodologies, using a stage by stage process that can be integrated within any business. There is a dedicated screen for adding of procedure notes. Password protection is provided on critical functions to maintain data integrity. This is a...
Formats: Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Projects, Quality Management, Issues and Tasks

Marketing firms may use this tool as a PowerPoint file generation accelerator when the amount of PowerPoint files is high. General Example: A simple example scenario may be where a person is converting files from .pdf format into .pptx and ends up with 100's of .pptx files and decides to generate one file from all these in a minimum amount of time. Project Example: If a project team is told to produce a final project presentation and each member of the team...
Formats: Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Marketing & Sales, Education, Projects

This spreadsheet helps you to make sure that even the smallest detail remains on the radar for your project or "to do" list. It allows you to set a due date, person responsible, and add comments and status per items. The spreadsheet automatically changes the status from unresolved to resolved once a completion date is added for an item. This spreadsheet also features push button functions to organize what you see on the screen such as unresolved or resolved items...
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel Template - Macro Enabled
Categories:Issues and Tasks, Planner, Projects

A simple tool for easily sending out multiple e-mails using Outlook....
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Marketing & Sales, Inventory, Other

A tool to help sailors keep track of financial and technical aspects of their sea time....
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel 2007
Categories:Other, Other, Other

This pre-formatted Continuous Improvement Charter is a great resource to help organize your CI idea, team, and resources needed to set your project up for success. It is very common to get into a project and realize that it was not set up correctly from the beginning. Many times this is due to inadedequate planning up front. Many times, major issues can be resolved in the planning phase of a project which can save you time, money, other valuable resources....
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Projects, Performance Measurement, Forms

its a volume control system that measures you exact filling volume for your shift and giving you a performance update for shift.5 bottles or containers are measured for weight and marked with elastic rubber bands,measure the average weigt of the closures/lids i.e. 5 lids weight/5. Fill your product into packaging container and measure according to your sequence....
Formats: Excel 2007
Categories:Food, Performance Measurement, Calculators

The Free Income Statement Spreadsheet is a simply designed tool for tracking your business income performance from month to month. It automatically roles up each month's performance into quartely performance so that you can clearly see the financial impact of your business decisions over time....
Formats: Excel 2007
Categories:Statements, Accounting, Finance

This free calendar includes a handy navigation bar that lets you easily jump from month to month. You can also plug in all your important dates and things you need to do to prepare for those dates. Its a convenient tool for planning your year, month or even week in an easily accessible and customizable format....
Formats: Excel 2007
Categories:Planner, Forms, Schedules

This spreadsheet is all you need to plan and track your exercises to goal every step of the way. All you do is set your goals, lay out your workout plan, and then track your results to success. The spreadsheet does all the math and number crunching behind the scenes that tells you how you're progressing against your goal from week to week and against the timeline that you set. It neatly displays your performance data in graphs that clearly...
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Fitness, Performance Measurement, Sports

This useful tool helps you calculate your return on investment, organize and track cost savings ideas. Great way to estimate the biggest bang for your buck among savings projects. The spreadsheet allows you to create a new project form by hitting a button and once the form is filled out, the spreadsheet automatically pulls the ROI and other relevant information to a project tracking page. This makes it easy to compare projects against each other in terms or ROI and...
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Calculators, Projects,

The Complete Root Cause Analysis tool guides you through the entire root cause analysis process to get to the core of issues of any complexity: Defining the issue In-depth discussion about the event and sequence of events Fishbone analysis 5 Why analysis of the issues uncovered in fishbone analysis Follow-up items, owners, due dates, and comments to ensure execution of corrective and preventative actions This tool will help guide your team to the source of problems that plague performance and erode efficiency. Some of the benefits...
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Issues and Tasks, Forms, Performance Measurement

Budget for 2013: Easy to use; does half the work for you. Set your budget, log your expenses, income, savings goals, as much or as little as you want to put in. MAKE 2013 A YEAR WITH YOU IN CONTROL! Features (Easy to Use): *Monthly Budget *Log for Income and Expenses *Monthly Calendar (included) *Savings Goals *Graphs for Year & Monthly Income/Expenses *Instructions with pictures FREE BONUS FEATURE: Includes the option for roll-over! If you don't spend the full budget (or overspend) it rolls over into the...
Formats: Excel 2007
Categories:Budgets, Accounting, Household

This highly functional and user-friendly spreadsheet simplifies the process of tracking and reporting downtime in an actionable format. It allows you to easily build your production process into the spreadsheet by clicking buttons and keying in the following variables: Machines, Production Lines, Downtime Reason Codes, and your specific products. It is set up to allow you to keep track of and follow up on this information: Date, Shift, Product, Area, Reason Code, Comment, Minutes Lost, Corrective Action, Preventative Action, and Work...
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Performance Measurement, Databases, Issues and Tasks

This is the upgrade to the popular Downtime Tracking tool with added functionality for calculating downtime by machine and by shift and clearly reporting the shift's performance in pareto and pie chart format. This highly functional and user-friendly spreadsheet simplifies the process of tracking and reporting downtime in an actionable format. It allows you to easily build your production process into the spreadsheet by clicking buttons and keying in the following variables: Machines, Production Lines, Downtime Reason Codes, and your specific...
Formats: Excel 2003, Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Performance Measurement, Engineering, Databases

This is the ultimate continuous improvement tool as it drives a culture of CI as long as it is applied and used consistently. All you need to do is input your weekly performance results and the spreadsheet does all the hard work. This tool automatically displays your results for the previous 4 weeks, compares your performance to goal, and compares your results to the results of the previous 2 quarters. This spreadsheet also automatically creates graphs of your weekly results...
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Performance Measurement, Charts,

A simple spreadsheet to automate the sending of email. Fields for "To", "CC", "Subject" and "Message" are used to automatically compile emails in Outlook. The spreadsheet also allows for up to ten attachments per e-mail. The user can choose to view e-mails that the macro creates before they are sent. Excellent tool for sending different reports weekly / monthly to specific groups of contacts with one click. Formulas can be used to generate "personal messages" for a large list of people (Great...
Formats: Excel 2007 - Macro Enabled
Categories:Marketing & Sales, Issues and Tasks, Other

This spreadsheet helps you easly create a "to do" list from clicking checkboxes next to pre-programmed activities. You set the spreadsheet up by inputting the activities that you do routinely and/or irregularly, how much time they take, who does the activity, and what supplies needed to be successful. Then, at the beginning of the day, week, or other time period, you go through the list and check off what items need to get done in that period. Then you hit...
Formats: Excel 2003
Categories:Issues and Tasks, Forms, Household