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From Data to Insight

One number nobody in the room can judge. Then eight questions, in one fixed order, asked of two files from two industries. Both files flip their leader. The causes are different. The eight steps find both.

Day 2 of 3 09:00 – 15:00 Arabella Hotel

The day

The day teaches one thing: a fixed order of eight questions that works on any table. Steps 1 and 2 are Data: how big is it, and what is missing or impossible. Steps 3 and 4 are Information: add it up, then add it up honestly, with the row count on the table. Steps 5 to 8 are Knowledge: three neighbors for one number, and the question the tool cannot answer, so what. The release is graduated. First the instructor types and you copy. Then you co-write each prompt. Then you drive alone on a finance ledger you have never opened, and the instructor only calls the step number. You leave with the eight steps on a card, two worked examples, and a comparison card in your own words.

Three concepts

One order of questions, two files, two industries.

01
The eight steps

Eight questions in one fixed order that works on any table. How big, what is missing, add it up, add it up honestly, then three neighbors and so what. Taught three times: copied, co-written, then driven alone.

02
Add it up honestly

Same question, three extra lines: how many rows are excluded, on what definition, and who changes rank between the two answers. Step 4 flipped Ahmadi in the work orders and Facilities in the ledger.

03
Three neighbors for one number

Beside the others, beside itself earlier, beside an outside mark, or beside nothing, said out loud. The tool will run any of them. It will not tell you which one to send.

Run of show

A guide, not a script, timings flex to the room.

  1. 1
    Two hundred and fifty-seven09:00
    One number from a clean file, on screen, with nothing beside it. The room cannot say whether it is good news, and everything they ask for is the same move.
  2. 2
    The ladder09:20
    Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom. Fifteen minutes and not a minute more: a label for the two days, not a theory.
  3. 3
    Inside the workbook09:35
    An answer in a chat is a screenshot. A column in your sheet is work: a formula you can read, and argue with. Ctrl + T first, because a range of cells is not a table.
  4. Break10:10
  5. 5
    Ladder A: from Data to Information10:20
    Steps 1 to 4 on the Work Order Set. The instructor types, the room copies. Step 4 is where Ahmadi goes from fastest at 3.17 days to slowest at 49.4.
  6. Break11:10
  7. 7
    Ladder A: from Information to Knowledge11:20
    Steps 5 to 8, co-written with the room. Three neighbors for one number, three true findings, and the question that picks between them: so what?
  8. Break12:15
  9. 9
    Ladder B: the same eight steps, a new file12:25
    All eight steps on a finance ledger nobody has opened, requested by a participant. The room drives. Facilities flips from first to second, and this time the cause is a definition, not a hole in a column.
  10. 10
    The row you want to delete13:15
    WO-2087 and its twin in the ledger, TX-9946. Three questions for any outlier, and the three sentences that turn a finding into something usable.
  11. 11
    Close and hook13:45
    Two rungs climbed, and two rank flips with two different causes. The habit matters more than the framework: the row count, written down without being asked.
  12. Lunch · until 15:00, closes the day14:00