Dur ing
his internship with Bain, Anand Rao used pivot tables to create
organisational charts based on reporting relationships and cost
centers. Bain’s Client, a Telecom company’s Business Unit, did
not have
an accurate picture of their organisation and needed to figure out
‘who is where’ to facilitate Organisation re-design.
The original employee-level data was in excel format tagged with
cost centre information. Anand used iterative ‘vlookup’ functions
to assign hierarchical levels to each employee.
 Several
pivot tables were then used to organise the data to provide
different views. The final output were views of organisation by
reporting structure, by Line of Business and Unit, an overview of
unit and location and overview by employee type. The client used
this information and recommendations to facilitate successful
re-organization as per strategic priorities.
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