The Think-cell training takes you from approximate PowerPoint charts to professional charts that speak for themselves. In one intensive day, you discover the plug-in that has become essential in consulting, finance and strategy to produce in minutes waterfall, Mekko and Gantt charts that are perfectly aligned. A skill that immediately changes how your presentations are perceived in French speaking Switzerland.
Move your PowerPoint slides into the league of top consulting firms
In organizations across Geneva and Lausanne, Think-cell is the tool that consultants use to deliver flawless slides in record time. This Think-cell training gives you those reflexes: building a waterfall in 30 seconds, automatically aligning labels, linking your chart directly to Excel data. When the session ends, you have the know-how of strategy firms and course materials to keep progressing at your own pace.
Module 01: The Toolbar
Module 02: Creating and modifying a graph
Module 03: Chart Types
Module 04: Links
In consulting, finance or strategy, the visual quality of PowerPoint presentations makes a difference from the very first slide. Think-cell has become the reference standard to produce these professional charts in a few clicks. Without it, you spend hours manually aligning bars and labels; with it, you deliver in 30 minutes what would take half a day. The Think-cell training gives you this productivity lever in one intensive day.
The stake is concrete: your professional credibility often hangs on form as much as content. A poorly framed waterfall or misaligned Gantt is enough to make the reader doubt. Mastering Think-cell means giving your work the presentation worthy of top consulting standards.
The training places signature Think-cell charts at the center. Waterfall to break down a margin variation or budget, Mekko to visualize a multidimensional distribution, Gantt to drive a project, perfected stacked column charts: each type is worked on concrete cases drawn from consulting and finance.
You also discover the automations that make Think-cell so valuable: perfect label alignment, automatic variance calculation, dynamic update when data changes.
One of Think-cell’s secrets is its ability to sync with an Excel workbook. You learn to connect a chart to an Excel range so that any data change automatically reflects in the slide. No need to redo the entire presentation each quarter: you update Excel, the chart follows.
The Think-cell training is designed for strategy consultants, management controllers, financial analysts, project managers and any profile who regularly presents demanding PowerPoint slides. Good PowerPoint mastery is required to fully benefit from the training.
At our ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this Think-cell training runs over one day with an expert instructor and a small group. You work on the charts you actually produce and leave with immediately applicable know-how plus course materials.
What exactly is Think-cell?
Think-cell is a PowerPoint plug-in that automates professional chart creation (waterfall, Mekko, Gantt) and streamlines slide alignment. Widely adopted in consulting, finance and management control.
Why is Think-cell so widespread in consulting?
Because it saves valuable time on producing polished presentations and ensures visual consistency hard to achieve manually.
Do I need to know PowerPoint before this Think-cell training?
Yes, good PowerPoint mastery is recommended.
Is this training suitable for a consultant or controller?
Absolutely. These profiles are precisely the historical target of Think-cell.
Is this Think-cell training held in Geneva?
Yes, the training takes place at the ITTA center in Carouge in Geneva, at Le Flon in Lausanne and in a virtual classroom.
How long to master Think-cell?
The basics are acquired in a structured day. Mastery comes with practice on your own presentations.
Which Think-cell charts are most useful daily?
Waterfall, Mekko and Gantt cover most business presentation needs. The training details each with hands on practice.
Consultants, analysts, controllers and regular client presentation profiles producing many complex graphics (waterfall, Mekko, Gantt) in PowerPoint. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes participants from international organizations, banking, consulting and growing SMEs. No specific prerequisite is required other than a concrete willingness to progress on the subject.
You leave with an operational mastery of the fundamentals, reusable canvases on your concrete cases, a structured action plan for the weeks that follow. Many participants report a visible effect from the first week back, with sustainable anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice. The course combines short theory inputs, practical exercises on your real situations and personalized trainer debrief.
A strategy consultant producing Think-cell waterfalls in minutes instead of hours under native PowerPoint. A controller automating monthly graphics via Excel-Think-cell linking. A financial analyst perfectly aligning graphics on complex grids. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback, and each participant leaves with an action plan calibrated to their own situation.
This training combines well with PowerPoint Fundamentals for the base, Excel Charts for visualization choice, and impactful presentation for global delivery. Many participants enroll in one of these courses in the following trimester, according to their current priority and professional context.
Think-cell has imposed itself as the reference for business consulting graphics since 2003. Used by McKinsey, BCG, Bain and most consulting firms, it drastically accelerates production of complex graphics (waterfall, marimekko, agenda, Gantt) while ensuring perfect alignment. This training targets profiles wanting to professionalize their business graphic production.
Most participants report a noticeable effect from the first week of return, with deeper anchoring over four to six weeks of regular practice on real files. The course closes with a personalized practice plan calibrated on your professional context, including milestones and review prompts to ensure the techniques become permanent.
The tools and techniques covered in this course are used daily by millions of professionals across Geneva and Lausanne organizations. Mastery of these features transforms repetitive work into efficient routine, freeing time for higher-value activities. This training relies on real professional cases and offers an outfitted approach calibrated for the 2025-2026 evolutions of the platform.
At ITTA centers in Geneva and Lausanne, this course runs in a small group with an expert trainer and a format alternating concise theory, practical exercises and personalized debrief. Group confidentiality is explicit and held. Each participant arrives with a real case and leaves with an action plan calibrated to their context. The course integrates recent evolutions of the domain (digital tools, hybrid formats, 2025-2026 practices) without losing focus on fundamentals.
Need a Think-cell license?
No, training environments are provided. For daily use, a license is required.
Suitable for Think-cell beginners?
Yes, the course lays fundamentals.
Is Think-cell still relevant in 2026?
Yes, the tool remains the reference in consulting firms.
Where do sessions take place?
ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.
Monday to Friday
8:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel. 058 307 73 00
ITTA
Route des jeunes 35
1227 Carouge, Suisse
Monday to Friday, from 8:30 am to 06:00 pm.
