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 employment
· function benchmark_peers
· clear
Where in the narrative
| analyze_data | 99 |
| diagnose | 48 |
| illustrate_case | 43 |
| front_matter | 29 |
| establish_context | 21 |
| appendix | 19 |
| recommend | 14 |
| quantify_impact | 12 |
| frame_problem | 11 |
| size_opportunity | 7 |
| benchmark_peers | 7 |
| plan_implementation | 4 |
Number shape
| plain | 216 |
| percent | 94 |
| money | 11 |
| multiplier | 3 |
7 examples
17%
A difficult hiring environment (relative to pre-pandemic norms) persists across US and Europe, though labor markets are showing some signs of cooling
$845
Leaders outperform industry peers on productivity
“Leaders are more likely to outperform industry peers in productivity by 25%”
12
...However, overall productivity of the sector is low compared to benchmarks
3.2:1
NMSU's Advancement Division has opportunities to improve SoC as indicated by an average staff to manager ratio of 3.2:1, which is below the leading class benchmark range of 8:1 to 12:1.
“NMSU's Advancement Division has opportunities to improve SoC as indicated by an average staff to manager ratio of 3.2:1, which is below the leading class benchm…”
5.47:1
NMSU should improve it’s SoC from the institutional average of 5.47:1 to a leading class range of 8:1 to 12:1. Additionally, the University should strive to reach a maximum of 4 layers for each unit.
“NMSU should improve it’s SoC from the institutional average of 5.47:1 to a leading class range of 8:1 to 12:1.”
3.75:1
NMSU's Vice President of Research Division has opportunities to improve SoC as indicated by an average staff to manager ratio of 3.75:1, which is below the leading class benchmark range of 8:1 to 12:1
“While the management layers for RCA is good with 3 layers, the SoC of control for the Division is 3.75:1, which is below the leading class benchmark range of 8:…”
~55 FTE
Example: used benchmarks to determine appropriate sizing and resourcing levels
“Industry benchmarks suggest opportunity of ~55FTE reduction in HR”