Tourism in the Caribbean

Models have to help you

I use spreadsheet models as an instrument to organize my thoughts about complex problems. To organize all the relevant data and information. To analyze the assumptions about the relations.

Once you know the mechanisms, the variables at hand and the problem to be solved, you can model it in a spreadsheet. You first start organizing all the relevant data. Then you focus on the equations, the formulas and the assumptions. This is a process I perform with the client. When the client understands the spreadsheet model, we do what-if scenarios. What-if this variable changes? What if that assumption is not right and we need a conservative estimate? What are other options and scenarios? What are the effects on our key figures?

Models help you to understand your business better. My goal is not to make a spreadsheet model, but to solve your problem and to help you understand your challenges and take the right decisions to get to your end results.

Everything can be a model

Whether you have a complex business case, a policy scenario, you want to increase your revenue or decrease costs. Everything can be modelled. I concentrate on quantitative economic models. In essence a model is broken down in modules or sections. A model consists of data. A model has input and output. I’m a specialist to see the model in your model. What are the factors at hand and how do they interrelate? When I have built a model with you, you see a clear picture of your problem, and it’s solution.

If you want to see how models help you solve strategic issues: look around on my blog.