Companies are in the business of making money, and most often they care about maximizing their Revenues, Gross profit or Operating income. One of the biggest challenges companies face is the ability to correctly and systematically diagnose and isolate the individual drivers of key business performance changes and build fast, surgical actions to increase profitability. This week I talk about the benefits of doing a proper price-cost-volume-mix analysis for your business, and get you started on building a production level application with analysis examples and explanations in Excel and R.