Metrics

What numbers consultants lead with.

Every slide that foregrounds a metric — 7,750 in total — classified into families by what's being measured. Drill in to see who uses each family, where in the narrative, and the real examples.

44 examples

$3.5 billion
Global MRO spend 2025
Accenture · 2025 · establish_context
Global aerospace market on the road to recovery
“The commercial aerospace market is showing signs of recovery in 2025, with global aerospace company revenues projected to grow 12% YoY.”
10 million tons
CO2e savings
Capgemini · 2025 · establish_context
We help our clients become more sustainable enterprises...
“Reducing the environmental impact of enterprise IT and creating a culture around net-zero objectives”
60%
cost reduction
Accenture · 2025 · establish_context
Generative AI: From 'waste out' to 'value in'
“However, we believe the greatest benefit of the technology will be an increase in revenue: "value in".”
6% or more within three years
Potential revenue uplift from pairing AI with people
Accenture · 2024 · establish_context
Functions other than sales, marketing and customer interaction that are likely to receive early attention are risk management and compliance, technology, HR and legal.
“Functions other than sales, marketing and customer interaction that are likely to receive early attention are risk management and compliance, technology, HR and…”
US$750 million
Commonwealth Bank of Australia core replacement cost
Accenture · 2024 · establish_context
If there's a single theme that has dominated discussions about banks' technology over the past few decades, it is the constraints of their digital core.
“When Commonwealth Bank of Australia replaced its core banking system, it took five years and cost almost US$750 million.”
73%
share of US bank employees' time with high potential to be impacted by generative AI
Accenture · 2024 · establish_context
Embracing generative AI for a competitive edge
“73% of the time spent by US bank employees has a high potential to be impacted by generative AI—39% by automation and 34% by augmentation.”
17-23%
potential productivity gains in communications industry from Gen AI
Accenture · 2024 · establish_context
Gen AI, increasingly an essential part of the digital core, is a game-changing technology, enabling significant changes in two areas:
“This is why so many of the CSPs Accenture speaks to are eager to dive deeper into what it could mean to their business. In fact, Gen AI is intricately connected…”
6%
Real consumer spending on goods vs. services (Index, 2014=100) gap above pre-pandemic trend
Accenture · 2023 · establish_context
Post-pandemic normalization dynamics continue to suggest more downside than upside to US consumer spending going forward
“Goods spending remains considerably elevated (6% higher) relative to pre-pandemic norms”
95%
Luxury spending
BCG · 2023 · establish_context
China is back but with significantly different dynamics vs Pre-Covid
“Chinese luxury consumers willing to spend more in mainland, as benefits of buying outside (price, range, etc.) gradually diminish.”
94.6
Visa Spending Momentum Index
McKinsey · 2023 · establish_context
According to Visa SMI, consumer spending momentum is at the weakest level since May 2020
“94.6 is the lowest SMI since May 2020.”
£33 billion
Potential GVA boost
Accenture · 2022 · establish_context
Why the impact of digitisation might be even greater
“The £33 billion potential boost to GVA is significant. To put it into context, this figure is more than double what the UK government estimates a free trade agr…”
60%
CXOs expecting price increases to reduce consumer spending power
Accenture · 2022 · establish_context
The macroeconomic and geopolitical environment make net zero harder to achieve
“60% of CXOs expect price increases to reduce consumer spending power, contributing to a decline in consumer and business confidence.”
2/3rd
R&D spenders
Capgemini · 2021 · establish_context
WE ARE THE LONG-STANDING PARTNER OF INNOVATION LEADERS IN R&D INTENSIVE SECTORS
“WE ARE THE LONG-STANDING PARTNER OF INNOVATION LEADERS IN R&D INTENSIVE SECTORS AND THE ER&D PIONEER IN PIVOTAL INDUSTRIES”
~97%
Global carbon sink potential
Bain · 2021 · establish_context
Nature: SEA holds the world's most valuable natural capital
“SEA must address rapid deforestation and land use change, which causes LUCF to be a net emitter instead of a carbon sink”
9%
Ad spending underperformance vs GDP in prior crises
Accenture · 2020 · establish_context
A shock to the advertising system
“Historically, economic shocks have always hit ad expenditures harder than GDP. Across previous crises dating back to the turn of the millennium, advertising und…”
$180
US ad spend per user per day
Accenture · 2020 · establish_context
A new post-pandemic ad world order
“What comes next is a rapidly evolving advertising market that will continue to disproportionately favor digital over other media, especially linear TV.”
$700M+
Annual media spend analyzed
Accenture · 2019 · establish_context
OUR STUDY OBJECTIVE: EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MEDIA CHANNELS IN CANADA
“Assemble and analyze a first-of-its-kind data set in Canada combining $700M+ in annual media spend, TV viewership, and point of sale data from 105 brands over 4…”
42%
Share of media spend
Accenture · 2019 · establish_context
WE ASSESSED SPEND ACROSS 4 KEY VERTICALS IN CANADA
“MULTIPLATFORM TV 42% | DIGITAL 40% | OTHER MEDIA 18%”
30-50%
waste management costs
LEK · 2019 · establish_context
However, the configuration and design of the waste ecosystem has a significant bearing on freight efficiency
“Within the waste supply chain there is also a trade-off between being an efficient, simple supply chain and another with superior environmental outcomes that wi…”
3,3 DKK mia.
Efficiency potential
McKinsey · 2016 · establish_context
Analysen belyser effektiviserings- og konsolideringspotentialet i forsyningssektoren, udover de aftalte 3,3 DKK mia.
50x
Cost reduction
BCG · 2016 · establish_context
Technological megatrends have created conditions ripe for this revolution
“So why is Industry 4.0 relevant now? Technology breakthroughs in the past 10 years have made the cost of key technology enablers like bandwidth, processing powe…”
almost 10 times
reduction in green bond issuance costs from DLT automation (HSBC / Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance)
Accenture · 2025 · establish_context
“As for cost, research by HSBC and the Sustainable Digital Finance Alliance found that DLT automation could cut the costs of green bond issuance by almost 10 tim…”
~$50 billion
Potential annual value unlocked by nursing automation in the US
Accenture · 2025 · establish_context
“Seventy percent of healthcare workers' tasks could be reinvented through technology augmentation or automation, according to Accenture analysis.”
22-30%
potential productivity boost from gen AI
Accenture · 2024 · establish_context
“Banks are likely to benefit more from generative AI than any other industry. Our analysis of operational efficiency indicates a potential to boost productivity …”
10,000x
cost of retrofitting vs. designing inclusively
Accenture · 2023 · establish_context
“the relative cost of retrofitting a product or service to become inclusive will increase significantly over time and can reach up to 10,000 times the cost of ma…”
9.7%—1.7X
increase in technology spend vs. industry peers
Accenture · 2023 · establish_context
“Generative AI has the potential to take strategy development and execution to a new level.”
10.7476
Cost
OliverWyman · 2023 · establish_context
10.7476
Cost
OliverWyman · 2023 · establish_context
226.5655
Cost
OliverWyman · 2023 · establish_context
$1.15
cost per kg
McKinsey · 2022 · establish_context
20%
Cost Reduction
Deloitte · 2021 · establish_context
“Process efficiency and standardization have overtaken cost reduction as a primary objective for investing in GBS, and more organizations have adopted the digita…”
$300,000
Ad spend (USD millions)
Accenture · 2020 · establish_context
“Since then, digital spend has surged while non-digital continued to decline. Digital eventually overtook non-digital in 2018.”
40%
innovation spend
Innosight · 2020 · establish_context
“This picture revealed that 60% of all projects were focused on markets that were small relative to performance targets and therefore were candidates for stoppin…”
>150%
IT cost savings
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
“Transparency improving quickly, resulting in even larger hidden IT cost base (>150%)”
25,8 mio. kr.
net savings
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
“Et årligt nettoprovenu på 25,8 mio. kr. (ikke indregnet udgifter til overhead) blev identificeret.”
106 mio. kr.
Cost
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
55 mio. kr.
Cost
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
91 mio. kr.
Cost
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
950 mio. kr.
Annual efficiency savings
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
“Analysens formål er at opstille effektiviseringsforslag, der kan bidrage til at tilvejebringe en mere effektiv ressourceudnyttelse og opgavevaretagelse.”
90-115 mio. kr.
Cost savings potential
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
“Det samlede potentiale som tager højde for overlap internt på området udgør 90-115 mio. kr.”
73 mio. kr.
DKK savings
BCG · 2017 · establish_context
“Det identificerede potentiale er bekendt på 1 mio. kr. som følge af at størstedelen af gevinsten realiseres ved sparet arbejdstid på kursister, men tiltaget med…”
10% to 20%
marketing spending reduction
BCG · 2016 · establish_context
“A North American pharmaceutical company, for example, adopted a prototyping approach to accelerate digital change.”
20%
local competitor cost advantage
BCG · 2016 · establish_context
“These companies have often found that their costs of goods sold are at least 20% higher than those of their principal local competitors because of product desig…”
121.9
Total abatement potential, 2030 TWh
McKinsey · 2012 · establish_context
“The measure categories below represent aggregated potential from largest three groups of measures with similar technology in each sector”