One of the major ideas that I've come across in my experiences in the food industry is the massive amount of information you need to process through. Previously I was in a regulatory position (reviewing FDA, CFIA, Mexican, Korean, Japanese, EU, so on and so forth as customers needed food laws) where I had so much data I had to sort through that the excel sheet I was using for compliancy standards was massive and growing out of hand. I also do the same for my current position, now that I gather data from a multitude of forms, I have to spend the time sorting, correcting and filtering through the data to get what I want from it. So how did I do this? I learned a new program that could get this done for me, Microsoft Access. How did I learn it? Well, I didn't spend a certain amount of money that I had previously for other Microsoft products teachings (which I found extremely lacking to apply to what I wanted). I used blogs, forums, wiki's and knowledge troubleshooting s