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.
Metric families
7,750 metric-led slides1266
Survey & sentiment
What people said — respondents, priorities, sentiment, NPS.
16.3%
1110
Market size & value
Scale of the pool — TAM, GMV, AUM, deal value, investment, funding.
14.3%
709
Cost & savings
What's spent or saved — costs, spend, savings, efficiency, abatement.
9.1%
541
Share & penetration
Piece of the pie — market share, adoption, penetration, uptake.
7.0%
491
Growth rate
Speed of change — CAGR, YoY, growth rate.
6.3%
261
Rates & ratios
Other rates — retention, conversion, representation, distress.
3.4%
324
Employment & headcount
People at work — employees, FTEs, productivity, jobs.
4.2%
226
Indices & scores
Composite indicators — confidence indices, rankings, ratings.
2.9%
218
Margin & return
Economic quality — margins, ROI/ROE/ROIC, TSR, profit.
2.8%
212
Environment & emissions
Green metrics — GHG, emissions, hydrogen, renewables.
2.7%
187
Volume & counts
Raw counts — number of X, transactions, deals.
2.4%
141
Revenue & sales
Top line — revenue, sales, GVA.
1.8%
76
Macro indicators
Economy-wide signals — inflation, unemployment, PMI.
1.0%
23
Valuation
Asset worth — present value, pre-money, exit value.
0.3%
1965
Other
Domain-specific or uncategorized long-tail.
25.4%
Filtered by cost_savings
· function establish_context
· clear
Where in the narrative
| analyze_data | 221 |
| quantify_impact | 101 |
| diagnose | 71 |
| recommend | 61 |
| illustrate_case | 60 |
| establish_context | 44 |
| benchmark_peers | 28 |
| size_opportunity | 21 |
| plan_implementation | 20 |
| frame_problem | 20 |
| compare_options | 19 |
| prioritize | 17 |
Number shape
| plain | 344 |
| percent | 216 |
| money | 132 |
| multiplier | 16 |
| other | 1 |
44 examples
$3.5 billion
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
We help our clients become more sustainable enterprises...
“Reducing the environmental impact of enterprise IT and creating a culture around net-zero objectives”
60%
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
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
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%
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%
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%
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%
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
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
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%
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
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%
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%
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
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+
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%
WE ASSESSED SPEND ACROSS 4 KEY VERTICALS IN CANADA
“MULTIPLATFORM TV 42% | DIGITAL 40% | OTHER MEDIA 18%”
30-50%
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.
Analysen belyser effektiviserings- og konsolideringspotentialet i forsyningssektoren, udover de aftalte 3,3 DKK mia.
50x
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
“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
“Seventy percent of healthcare workers' tasks could be reinvented through technology augmentation or automation, according to Accenture analysis.”
22-30%
“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
“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
“Generative AI has the potential to take strategy development and execution to a new level.”
10.7476
10.7476
226.5655
$1.15
20%
“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
“Since then, digital spend has surged while non-digital continued to decline. Digital eventually overtook non-digital in 2018.”
40%
“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%
“Transparency improving quickly, resulting in even larger hidden IT cost base (>150%)”
25,8 mio. kr.
“Et årligt nettoprovenu på 25,8 mio. kr. (ikke indregnet udgifter til overhead) blev identificeret.”
106 mio. kr.
55 mio. kr.
91 mio. kr.
950 mio. kr.
“Analysens formål er at opstille effektiviseringsforslag, der kan bidrage til at tilvejebringe en mere effektiv ressourceudnyttelse og opgavevaretagelse.”
90-115 mio. kr.
“Det samlede potentiale som tager højde for overlap internt på området udgør 90-115 mio. kr.”
73 mio. kr.
“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%
“A North American pharmaceutical company, for example, adopted a prototyping approach to accelerate digital change.”
20%
“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
“The measure categories below represent aggregated potential from largest three groups of measures with similar technology in each sector”