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Five questions to ask before you add another tool

Every new tool promises to save time. Before you sign, ask who will open it on Monday, where its numbers come from and how you will leave it again.

DenisWritten for the Zoliax Journal

Who will open it every week? A tool that only one person uses becomes a place where work goes to hide.

Where do its numbers come from? If the answer is "someone types them in", the tool adds work before it saves any.

How do you leave? Ask for an export in an open format before you start, not when you want to stop.

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