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%
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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 |
11 examples
$31b
Services industries such as professional and financial services benefit the most from the improved broadband speed delivered by the nbn
“Professional, Scientific and Technical Services experienced the largest aggregate benefits from the nbn network, accounting for $5.8b (18%) of the total GDP upl…”
$845
Leaders outperform industry peers on productivity
“Leaders are more likely to outperform industry peers in productivity by 25%”
~15,000 hours / $100M
Companies with high interoperability have an unwavering focus on improving human connections with trust and skills. They continuously invest in pervasive training, empowering IT and non-IT decision makers to make sound application choices. They also build data-sharing mindsets to prevent data hoarding.
“For a company that has 10,000 employees, this amounts to a productivity gain of almost 15,000 hours and $100 million every year.”
$100 million
Companies with high interoperability have an unwavering focus on improving human connections with trust and skills. They continuously invest in pervasive training, empowering IT and non-IT decision makers to make sound application choices. They also build data-sharing mindsets to prevent data hoarding.
“For a company that has 10,000 employees, this amounts to a productivity gain of almost 15,000 hours and $100 million every year.”
$198.4K
FS – Divisional average labor cost per process
“In the processes with the highest fragmentation (Perform Maintenance and Manage Grounds), the average labor cost/FTE is higher in most divisions than the Facili…”
$165.8K
In the process where staff are most distributed across campus, the average labor cost per FTE is less than the average cost for AUX Division employees.
“Oversee University Special Events incorporates two divisions outside of the Auxiliary Services Divisions; however, it is less expensive to perform the process b…”
$180 million
“We are currently breaking our dependence on China for logistics and imports. The African continent is now a global player able to shape future partnerships with…”
$2.5m
“From day-1 we built an African learning model. Even in very complex environments, we are always looking for a real long-term impact.”
$1,6 Billion
“Investing in Africa is first looking at the opportunities. As African-doers, we must transform our issues into business opportunities.”
$1.8 billion
“In driving our business, we pay attention to the macroeconomic risk with rising inflation, security and cybersecurity. Mitigating those risks is paramount to ma…”
$384,000