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 growth_rate
· function benchmark_peers
· clear
Where in the narrative
| analyze_data | 230 |
| establish_context | 88 |
| frame_problem | 27 |
| illustrate_case | 26 |
| benchmark_peers | 26 |
| size_opportunity | 24 |
| quantify_impact | 18 |
| recommend | 15 |
| diagnose | 11 |
| decompose_segments | 8 |
| transition | 7 |
| appendix | 4 |
Number shape
| percent | 403 |
| plain | 37 |
| multiplier | 37 |
| money | 10 |
| other | 4 |
26 examples
3.5%
Inflation remains elevated in most major markets but shows easing in the US, Euro area, and Korea, while the UK faces renewed upward momentum
2.6x
Customers as growth engines
“Banks in the top 20% for advocacy scores experience 1.7x faster revenue growth globally, with even higher growth (2.6x) recorded in North America.”
37.9%
Sustainability-related segments outpace conventional industry growth
“The top five sectors for sustainability-related growth were automotive (37.9%), utilities (16.6%), textiles (16.0%), home and personal care (14.2%) and paper (1…”
0%
Real wage growth has turned positive in the US amidst recent easing of inflation, but remains persistently negative across Europe
10.4%
Inflation globally remains elevated well above target levels, except in China
12%
Energy and commodity prices are driving input cost increases in sensitive industries
8 countries
Eight countries showing strong digital maturity
“Eight countries with an emerging young population exhibit stronger digital maturity than the rest”
50%
AI Achievers advance from practice to performance
“Pre-pandemic (2019), AI achievers globally already enjoyed 50% greater revenue growth, on average, versus their peers.”
18.3%
Growth in outstandings and purchase volume vary across issuers
“At an aggregated level, both outstandings and purchase volume had double digit YoY growth in 1Q 2023. However, purchase volume growth is decelerating while outs…”
7%
Growth Markets lag behind peers in unlocking value from interoperability
“Highly interoperable companies in Growth Markets unlocked up to three additional percentage points of revenue growth than low/no interoperability companies stuc…”
2.3x
The tech-forward group consistently shows a higher portion of companies that perform above peers on a given metric when compared to others.
“The tech-forward group also stands out on performance. Before and during the pandemic, these companies were 2.3X more likely to outperform peers in terms of rev…”
<0%
As an industry, posts have struggled to grow
“A majority of the postal operators have faced stagnant or declining revenues; postal operators with growth above 2% have grown largely inorganically”
6.4pp
Outperforming across industries
“Companies across industries—from Life Sciences to Travel—create value, in good times and bad, when they prioritize interoperability.”
7.9%
The Speedster advantage 2. Highest topline growth
“The fastest Industrial companies (Speedsters) have achieved the highest topline growth compared to their peers.”
-1.3%
Companies with multiple targets are cutting emissions faster
“By going much further than setting distant net zero targets, firms that develop and deploy comprehensive decarbonization strategies and carbon intelligence capa…”
6.5X
In fact, on average, Pacesetters grew revenues 6.5 times faster than their peers during 2018–20.
“Pacesetters also enjoyed clear advantages over Stragglers on other measures, such as better ecosystem partnerships (23% more), greater pace of scaling innovatio…”
13%
Continued to outperform the market and take share
8%
UAE rise of insurance premiums remains high at 8%, exceeding inflation rate; UAE percentage rise of insurance premiums in ‘20 exceeds that of some developed nations
2X
Leading companies are achieving significantly more value with the help of Future Systems
“The difference is staggering: Leaders grow revenue at more than twice the rate of Laggards.”
3.3%
Despite witnessing several periods of economic prosperity, growth has been highly volatile
-3.79%
WMATA's peer group faced mixed fortunes since 2012
0.8
Our latest outlook is lower than “base case”-like views
21
The Indian manufacturing sector has performed well over the long term
“The Indian manufacturing sector is a perfect example of a reliable, steady workhorse.”
20%
Seven manufacturing superstars have shown growth in exports over the past five years
“These superstars consist of six large manufacturing economies (above $250Bn of export) that have shown positive export growth in the past five years. They are S…”
4.3
Syracuse has grown enrollment at a higher rate than most peers - particularly undergraduate enrollment
70%
“A company has a 70% higher chance of being a long-term profitable growth company if it performs well against its peers than it does against other industries.”